ART WORK CONTROVERSY

NEWS: CRYSTAL CASTLES CAUGHT UP IN ARTWORK CONTROVERSY

WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE PICTURE ABOVE, WHAT DO YOU SEE? DON’T THINK, BUT GIVE ME YOUR FIRST INITIAL REACTION TO IT. IS IT SOMETHING POSITIVE OR SOMETHING NEGATIVE?

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SO BASICALLY THE CONTROVERSY OF THIS PAINTING HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH A BATTERED WOMAN AKA MADONNA WITH A BLACK EYE. THE MAIN CONTROVERSY HAS TO DO WITH THE FACT THAT CRYSTAL CASTLE HAS BEEN USING THIS ART PIECE DURING THE SHOW AS A BACKDROP, T-SHIRTS & OTHER TYPES OF MERCHANDISE WITHOUT PERMISSION. IN THE BEGINNING, WHEN THEY FIRST CAME OUT CRYSTAL CASTLE WHICH INCLUDES ALICE GLASS AND ETAN KATH THEY FOUND THIS ART PIECE ONLINE AND THOUGHT IT WAS INTERESTING SO THEY DECIDED TO PUT IT ON THEIR T-SHIRTS. THEY DID THIS IN HOPES OF FINDING OUT WHO THE ARTIST IS. THEY HOPED THAT THE ARTIST WOULD CONTACT THEM AND THEY CAN GET IN CONTACT OF WORKING TOGETHER IN MORE PROJECTS. BUT INSTEAD, TREVOR BROWN TOOK LEGAL ACTIONS. HE CLAIMS IN WHICH CRYSTAL CASTLE ADMITS THAT THEY DIDN’T GET PERMISSION TO USE THE ART PIECE BUT ALSO HE WAS ALSO PROMISED A REMUNERATION (SALARY) WHICH HE HASN’T RECEIVED. CRYSTAL CASTLE CLAIMS THAT AFTER FINDING OUT WHO THE ARTIST WAS THEY TRIED CONTACTING HIM NUMEROUS TIMES BUT NO RESPONSE.

SO IT’S A BUNCH OF HE SAID/SHE SAID MUMBO JUMBO. NOTHING IS FREE ANYMORE. AND YOU BASICALLY HAVE TO BE CAREFUL NOW A DAYS ON WHAT YOU USE, PRINT, DISTRIBUTE, PRODUCE, QUOTE FROM, ETC. NOW A DAYS CAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW THERE WILL BE SOMEONE OUT THERE YOU MIGHT ANGER. AND IF YOU DO KNOW THAT WHAT YOU USE, IS SOMETHING ORIGINAL, GET PERMISSION AND GET IT IN WRITING WITH A COPY IN HAND. PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS FIND A WAY TO SUE SOMEONE, A LOT OF TIMES ITS JUST BECAUSE OR THEY CAN, PUBLICITY REASONS OR FOR THE MONEY, WHICH ALWAYS CAUSES NEGATIVE HOSTILITY WITH PEOPLE. CRYSTAL CASTLE CLAIMS ALSO THAT TREVOR BROWN IS MAKING IT PUBLIC ON WHAT HAPPEN BECAUSE OF PUBLICITY REASONS, WHETHER OR NOT ITS TRUE OR NOT, WHO KNOWS, CRYSTAL CASTLE SHOULD OF GOT PERMISSION. AND IF THEY WERENT SURE HOW TO FIND THE ARTISTS, THERES MANY DIFFERENT WAYS TO DO IT THEN PRINT IT OUT ON EVERYTHING THEY PROMOTE AND MAKE PROFIT OFF IT.

AND BY THEY WAY…HOW DOES MADONNA FEEL ABOUT THIS? I WOULD BE PISSED IF MY FACE WITH A BLACK EYE WAS PLASTERED EVERYWHERE AND HAD NO IDEA ABOUT IT.