{"id":730,"date":"2021-05-25T08:44:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T00:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=730"},"modified":"2021-05-24T09:56:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T01:56:41","slug":"banksy-dealt-blow-in-trademark-case-involving-monkey-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/banksy-dealt-blow-in-trademark-case-involving-monkey-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Banksy Dealt Blow in Trademark Case Involving Monkey Image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has ruled against\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_banksy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"banksy\">Banksy<\/a>\u00a0in a trademark case surrounding the famed street artist\u2019s iconic monkey image. According to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">report<\/a>\u00a0by the\u00a0<em>Art Newspaper<\/em>, the artist\u2019s EU trademark of the work, which was first filed by the entity Pest Control in 2018, has been \u201cdeclared invalid in its entirety\u201d by the EUIPO.<\/p>\n<p>The case stemmed from a 2019 complaint issued by the greeting card company Full Colour Black, which contended that Banksy\u2019s trademark was \u201cfiled in bad faith and that it was non-distinctive,\u201d according to the\u00a0<em>Art Newspaper<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Bansky\u2019s image, which was first commissioned in 2002 by a Brighton nightclub, features a monkey whose torso is covered by the message \u201cLaugh now, but one day we\u2019ll be in charge.\u201d A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">version<\/a>\u00a0of the spray paint work sold at Christie\u2019s 21st-century evening sale last week for over $2 million.<\/p>\n<p>In its ruling, the EUIPO points to the image\u2019s display in public spaces as graffiti, which has made it \u201cfree to be photographed by the general public and has been disseminated widely.\u201d It states that the artist has long been aware that his works were being used and reproduced \u201con a massive scale without any of it being under his control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last fall, the EUIPO\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">issued a similar ruling<\/a>\u00a0against Banksy\u2019s trademark for his\u00a0<em>Flower Thrower<\/em>\u00a0image. The artist has since re-filed a trademark for that image. Banksy has previously asserted that \u201cpublic access to a sign and wide dissemination of a sign is not a bar to registration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source\uff1ahttps:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has ruled against\u00a0Banksy\u00a0in a trademark case surrounding the famed street artist\u2019s iconic monkey image. According to a\u00a0report\u00a0by the\u00a0Art Newspaper, the artist\u2019s EU trademark of the work, which was first filed by the entity Pest Control in 2018, has been \u201cdeclared invalid in its entirety\u201d by the EUIPO. 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