The embrace of graffiti has made artists more possessive of their designs, more sensitive to their reputation and, along with the higher stakes, more inclined to sue. McDonald’s is the defendant in the latest of a growing handful of graffiti copyright clashes. ENLARGE A 'Norm' graffiti tag on a building on Bartlett Street in Brooklyn. He alleged in federal court there that McDonald’s ripped off a graffiti work he titled “N-O-R-M Fire Escape on Bartlett” over boarded-up windows on a vacant Brooklyn building. Similar “tags,” or letters in graffiti parlance, are splashed on McDonald’s walls in France and London, too.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 12, 2016 13:07 UTC