Evil company vs artist

I'm kind of surprised it was Guess instead of Urban Outfitters. UO is always always lifting other people's work

Umm, isn't Banksy's entire career centered around helping himself to others property without asking permission?

I'm honestly confused if he is using this display to advance his subversive messaging or if he is upset that he is the one being subverted.

As far as I know, he doesn't make money from that. He gets publicity from street art, but it's not like someone is paying for it —at least, they aren't paying for it to be created, but many will pay more for it after.
He's just noting that Guess has entered the ring.

Banksy

Guess

All I see are two companies.

sip

Banksy is overrated sentimental trash and I will die on this hill. Also yeah it's a money making cooperative, not a single artist
- Also aren't a few of his(their) pieces literally made of collages of other people's art?

How did this play out?

Take a guess
- LoL, I see what you did there.
- Best. Reply. Ever.
  
  No joke…very witty.
I'm pretty sure it's still playing out. Two years later, Guess will have dropped their guard. If I gave a shit about their crap clothing, I'd give it a whirl. And leave a postcard of the Banksy painting. lol.
- hand them out at the nearest encampment if the clothes don't appeal to you

Can't say I agree with the path he took to get there, but I do agree with the conclusion.

wait wait wait wait ... if I vandalize property, do I get intellectual property rights over the creation?? Or even ignoring the legal aspect, do I get moral rights to the creation? Not sure I have the balls to make that claim.

Yes, you absolutely do get Copyright protection: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_Kingdom (see the section on “Qualification for protection”)

You don’t get property rights over the physical object, but you automatically get copyright protections on the work itself.

Those are completely separate things and there’s no reason they would be tied together.
- Hilariously enough though, someone can cut the piece of wall the artwork is on out, and sell it, which has happened.
  
  It's their wall, after all.
- You don’t get property rights over the physical object
  
  Woah, not true dude! I've spent enough time with gangbangers to know that if you tag something, it means you own that entire city block, and anyone who says differently gets their ass kicked, or shot.
How is creating a work of art by an artist of worldwide renown on an ugly bare concrete wall vandalism? If it in some way affected the utility or even the aesthetics, you might have a point. But trying to make a crime out of improving public spaces through art is just silly.
- except that it's literally a crime to vandalize public spaces to impose your ideas, aesthetics, and art on the public. Are you in actual denial or what is happening here?
  
  this is not a comment on my opinion of Banksy's artistic value. But a major component of their art is the simple fact that it IS a crime. If you take that away, it loses most of its meaning.
I thought about that as well, but don't forget that this can also be commissioned. Where I live this happens a lot on places where they know people are gonna spray anyway. It's a lot nicer to look at and other sprayers are less likely to spray over it
- To be fair, we all know that Banksy's work was not commissioned by anyone.
curious how you know it's vandalism. like murals are a thing, getting approval from the building owner is a thing, one of the parts I miss most about my hometown was the art everywhere, but "fuck you" if you use spray paint as your medium I guess
- You're asserting that Banksy gets permission from the owner of the wall before they paint on it? If so there's a lot of people out there pretending to know nothing about it when some art appears on their walls.
Banksy got da balls
No, you don’t.