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Why Wall Street’s <i>Charging Bull</i> Sculptor Has No Real Case Against <i>Fearless Girl</i>

An argument based on the Visual Artists Rights Act is unlikely to hold up in the courts.
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Wall Street’s Charging Bull sculpture is on the rampage this week. But there’s no reason to expect his new adversary, Fearless Girl, to back down.

Arturo Di Modica, the sculptor responsible for the famous bovine bronze, this week over , on the grounds that this new neighboring sculpture infringes on his copyright. has been a New York landmark since 1989, when Di Modica by installing the three-and-a-half ton beast outside the New York Stock Exchange overnight, guerrilla style. It was moved to Bowling Green, where it remains a (longterm) temporary

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