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Artists Use Yelp to Shame Plagiarizing Restaurant

by Rea McNamara on January 26, 2016
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Turns out Yelp isn’t only useful as a go-to website for dining destination consensus. For Kelly Mark, it’s an effective way to pressure a restaurant to remove its unauthorized copy of an artwork.

Last August, the Canadian artist served notice to the owners of Old School, a Toronto restaurant, demanding the immediate removal and destruction of a neon sign that bears a striking resemblance to her 2006 work, “I Called Shotgun Infinity When I Was Twelve”. The neon copy is exactly the same in text, layout, and color. Only the font and size of the piece differs.

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Philip Morris Orders Artist Brad Troemel to Cease and Desist

by Corinna Kirsch on October 24, 2012
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Philip Morris does not want its cigarette cartons used as art. The mega-corporation has today accused artist Brad Troemel of trademark infringement for using Marlboro products in his online Etsy store.

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