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"Staten Island artist Scott LoBaido has a lawyer and is ready to take on the de Blasio administration in court if the Department of Transportation continues to pressure him to remove his thin blue line outside of the 122 precinct."

By Intellectual Property Law, Esq.

The artist says he "painted the blue line as a way to stand in solidarity with the NYPD after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced he would paint 'Black Lives Matter? street murals across the five boroughs on the heels of nationwide racial injustice protests." His lawyer argues: "Cites can do one of two things, they can either paint nothing and take no position, or they can allow everybody to paint ? their own political points of view on the streets. But they can?t selectively say ?my political opinion is going to be allowed to be painted and yours is not, and if you paint yours, you?re going to be subject to fines, penalty, imprisonment."

Full post as published by The Art Law Blog on August 11, 2020 (boomark / email).