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lime@feddit.nu 12 hours agomost artists dislike the entire idea of copyrighting a color for the singular purpose of limiting its use to one person. some people care more about copyrights than others.
Comment on Fuck you in particular
lime@feddit.nu 12 hours agomost artists dislike the entire idea of copyrighting a color for the singular purpose of limiting its use to one person. some people care more about copyrights than others.
oasis@piefed.social 11 hours ago
Pretty sure vantablack was patented not copyrighted.
It's also possible that is wasn't either and just was really hard to produce.
Afaik vantablack isn't really designed to be be painted and requires quite specialised equipment.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
They sell it as a paint, however : “Controversy arose when Surrey Nanosystems granted Anish Kapoor exclusive rights to use Vantablack in artistic applications. Many artists voiced opposition to his monopoly over the substance.”
blargh513@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Thats the beef. If you try to get or use it, Amish Kapoor will typically take legal action.
Also, hes never really made any compelling art with it either.
He’s the guy who made that big silver sculpture in Chicago. He intensely dislikes that everyone calls it The Bean because he named it Cloud Gate. Really, he made a giant sculpture in a public place that is shaped like a massive shiny kidney bean and is big mad that people call it a bean. Seems like hes kind of a thin skinned baby.
oasis@piefed.social 8 hours ago
If I remember correctly the company that gave him permission to use vantablack never gave him the ownership of it.
So presumably Amish couldn't do anything personally about it.