Case in point:

Sometime last year, Auckland sculptor John Radford tried to take legal action against Hallensteins (a clothing company) because they took a picture of one of his sculptures in Western park and put it on a tee-shirt to sell for a profit. This was wrong indeed, and John led a crowd of people to the store on Queen street to protest with signs that said things like "Hallensteins=Philistines" and such the like. Unfortunately, what John didn't realise, and what IS IT ART tried to tell him was that the image used was
a) taken in the public domain and
b) not a photo that He had taken.
Therefore He had no legal comeback what-so-ever. To paraphrase the man himself, He was 'Up shit creek'.

The internet by it's very definition is public domain, probably the ultimate public domain. IS IT ART expresses opinions based on the experience of going to thousands of art shows over the years, carefully cultivating liver cancer and an appreciation of what we think good art is.

So we'll say whatever we like. Because that's what we're used to. If you don't like it (like how we don't like most of the crap we see just about every day) and you don't want to tell us something we don't already know about art, then hit the little button at the very top right hand corner. We are not Hallensteins, we are a group of non-profit individuals.

Thank you.