The law which was introduced by NYC Councilman Peter Vallone banned young adults under the age of 21 from possessing spray paint or broad-tipped markers. The law that came into affect on Jan. 1, 2006 was of course an attempt by the city to curve graffiti by increasing the age of which one had to be to legally purchase the cans. However this soon became a problem for artist and students alike who wanted to purchase the martials for personal use. So on April 2006 seven high school and college students along with the help of fashion designer Marc Ecko filed, a lawsuit against New York City, over its anti-graffiti law.
The case first fell into the hands of Judge Daniels and after a short period of time he ruled that “there is no rational basis to single out 18-year-olds, 19-year-olds and 20-year-olds more than any other group in the adult population,” and proposed temporary ruling meant to stop the city from enforcing the law until all of the facts of the dispute were explored in more depth and a permanent ruling results. The case was then moved on June 2006 to a Federal appeals court which upheld Daniels’ decision. The city subsequently appealed and the case went to a 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals were on Thursday(Feb 1) the decision by Daniels was once against upheld making the law unconstitutional
“Young adults can legally buy spray paint and broad-tipped markers because the city’s effort to stop graffiti by banning their access to those items seems to erode their First Amendment rights”, a federal appeals court said Thursday.
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Hell Yea! Time to get my cans out again.. sike I can't draw worth a damn lol
sad how people disrespect graffiti and don't consider it an art form because it was created by minorities. i'm at art school and there was a debate of the students vs the teacher and he doesn't consider it an art form because u don't go to school to learn that and some other bs excuses. nothing would be art if no1 made up the individual types in the first place. they just didn't always exist to begin with. props on these dudes keeping it alive.
Fuck Art.
And the Law.
wow..amen to the article..and skillz, yall need to grow up, and see whats in front of you.
Fuck Peter Vallone too.
Fuck AFHD too for jumpin off.
Skillz i can tell u a stupidass u said "fuck art" wen ur on a hip hop site wtf is wrong with u...Graffiti is one aspect of hip hop and and is surppose to be consider an art ur...so is breakdancing, turntables(DJs), and Rap itself so ur plain stupid cause if u don know where u are ryte now lemme tell u that ur on http://www.defsounds.com,Def Sounds: It's Hip Hop...
Shout out to everyone out there still keeping the ART of graffiti alive. I remember when I used to be heavily into it. I drew some graff pics in art class one day and my teacher fell in love with it. For the Dick*Eater who's name ain't worth mentioning...
Get cha' Nut ass off of this site. Hip Hop is a form of ART just like Graffiti is...Period! U might as well just change ya name fam cause now nobody gives a fuck a bout ya posts or opinions anymore (if they ever did lol) U've just had ya DefSounds priveledges revoked...U lost all credibility dumbass!
...What the fuck made u pic the names Skillz anyway? LMFAO! How old are u? Please tell me that you're between 7-14... anything over that is just fucking embarassing!
Back 2 what I was saying... my teacher loved it becuase it was new, it was raw, creative. Every civilization, "class", and culture had their own art expression. Calligraphy, heiroglyphics, Old English, Graffiti...etc. etc. It's all ART!
So for someone, some city, or some fuckin' state to think they could dictate who could purchase the suplies to practice these forms of ART must be outta their fuckin minds!
I repeat... they must be outta their FUCKIN' MINDS!
Words of advice to the idiots....
-BE EAZY!
shits real its a demonstration of life and hip hop culture if niggaz cant respect that than fuck em big ups on this stay up fam 1
Fuck the two other bitches on my dick.
y3ssss!! its bout time!! we done graffiti in art class...thass juss NY <33 graffiti is real cool n complez n ppl who can do it got skillz n it should b appreciated juss like otha arts