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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 410705" data-attributes="member: 16749">I suppose there's a point to be made there, but in this case, it is a crime that is committed for the specific intention of gaining an audience, and I'd rather not reward it.  On another note, it seems to me that taking pictures of other people's art (aside from any legal or ethical issues surrounding the original art) isn't really an artistic expression on the part of the photographer, but merely duplicating someone else's work.  If I were so inclined, I am sure that I could go out and find some graffiti of the sort that Ptcasper had in mind, and take a picture, but any artistic merit that this picture would have would not be my own, but that of the one whose graffiti I photographed.</blockquote>