Ivanova Elena Leonidovna Voronin Danil Alexandrovich

The street art objects of the anonymous artist Banksy have contradictory characteristics from a legal point of view. On the one hand, they are unauthorized in nature, harming other people’s property, on the other hand, they have a broad communicative orientation and are themselves able to act as objects of copyright, being recognized by the public as works of art. In this study, using the example of Banksy street art objects, the problems of the lack of criteria for distinguishing graffiti, street art and public art objects in domestic legislation, the low effectiveness of the existing methodology for countering acts of vandalism in the form of unauthorized inscriptions and drawings are considered, and ways to resolve them are proposed

Banksy, street art, graffiti, public art, vandalism

Ivanova Elena Leonidovna – Candidate of Juridical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Chair of State and Law Disciplines, Irkutsk Law Institute (branch) University of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation (1, Shevtsova st., Irkutsk, 664035, Russian Federation), ORCID: 0000-0002-2733-150X, RSCI AuthorID: 851140, e-mail: lenai@list.ru

Voronin Danil Alexandrovich – Legal Consultant, Regional Full-service agency “AV” (38, Marata st., Irkutsk, 664025, Russian Federation), ORCID: 0009-0005-1554-8073, RSCI AuthorID: 1248630, e-mail: danilvoronin00@mail.ru

Ivanova E. L., Voronin D. A. Pravovaya harakteristika nesankcionirovannyh rabot benksi [Legal characteristics of banksy’s unauthorized works] Sibirskij yuridicheskij vestnik [Siberian Law Herald]. 2024, no 2(105), pp. 24–28. – DOI 10.26516/2071-8136.2024.2.24 (in Russian)

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