I'll bet if you cherry picked 100 websites, and offered people a low price to access only those websites, that it would be all the internet most people would need and they would happy with it. They'll just turn back around to their walled garden when they get the message "You must pay for the premium plan to access this content." Some people never stray much further than Facebook, Netflix, and Google. This would position the ISP perfectly to blackmail those 100 sites to keep them on the lowest tier plan, or get them to pay up to reach the largest customer base.
i.e. lots of people are happy with walled gardens.
Considering I haven't seen the girl and the bull in the same photo, the girl statue by itself looks like a work of art to me and communicates the idea whether the bull is there or not.
And even if it is considered an extension of another work, that doesn't mean it's illegal. No law is broken by placing one work of art next to another.
If one of the major complaints is that it's an advertisement, then it seems like people have figured out it's advertising without it being blatantly obvious.
He could have also spoken to the press, made a film about it, launched a protest, or done any number of other perfectly valid ways to draw attention to the problem without making a legal issue out of it.
A real artist might have come up with something else to add to the situation to comment on it even further.
She lives in a wealthy district and won her last election with 72% of the vote. She's a tool of big business.
"The 7th is a very safe seat for the Republican Party. In fact, it has long been reckoned as the state's most Republican area outside the party's traditional heartland in East Tennessee. The district's politics are dominated by the wealthy suburbs of Nashville, such as Brentwood, Franklin and Spring Hill. These areas boast some of the highest median incomes in the state."
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And even if it is considered an extension of another work, that doesn't mean it's illegal. No law is broken by placing one work of art next to another.
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A real artist might have come up with something else to add to the situation to comment on it even further.
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