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"I'm bringing this lawsuit to stand up for the rights of artists everywhere, and for the interests of Detroit's creative entrepreneurs, like myself, who have invested in the arts, public art and art education," she said in a statement last week.
Grandiose words but the in fact the opposite is more likely. An unintended consequence of what this person has done by launching this publicity-garnering lawsuit will be to make it far more difficult for other artists to get the opportunity that she got, not to mention hindering restoration investment potential of vacant and abandoned properties.
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"Building owners and buyers, beware," said Andrey Tomkiw, managing partner of Royal Oak-based law firm Tomkiw Mackewich PLC. "If at some point in time you don't particularly care what happens to an abandoned building that you own and you don't know about VARA, you may be caught in a quandary down the line."
It's all very gray and the building owners may have a this openeing.
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One of the gray areas, Lipp said, is a provision that allows a building owner to remove a mural or other piece of visual art if he or she has notified the artist of the intent to do so and given the artist the required 90 days to "safely" remove the art themselves without destroying or harming it.
Artists' rights concerns could hinder investors in city real estate, attorneys say