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9 - Graffiti, Street Art and Colombian Copyright Law
from Section A - Americas
- By Marcela Palacio Puerta
Edited by Enrico Bonadio, City, University of London
Book:

The Cambridge Handbook of Copyright in Street Art and Graffiti

Published online:

14 November 2019

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07 November 2019, pp 144-156
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Currently, many cities in Colombia are starting to embrace and promote urban art even though in the recent past the police-or even worse, social-cleansing groups-have persecuted graffiti and street art artists. However, cities like Barranquilla, Valledupar, Medellin, Cali, Bucaramanga, Pereira, and Ibague have welcomed graffiti, designating places, mainly walls, for artists to express themselves via graffiti and street art. Fairs, seminars, and museum exhibitions of urban art are being held in various Colombian cities and these art forms are even boosting local tourism. Amidst this growing collection of street art, one question remains: what protection does street art-particularly lettering-based graffiti-enjoy and what kind of rights do their artists hold over them?

“And They Shall Make War No More”: Lessons about Peace-Making and Overcoming Conflict from Colombia
Hector Fabio Henao Gaviria
Journal:

New Blackfriars / Volume 96 / Issue 1062 / March 2015

Published online by Cambridge University Press:

01 January 2024, pp. 177-191

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March 2015
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This paper describes the background to the last fifty years of violence in Columbia and identifies its causes in inequality, poverty and displacement. It then explores the ways in which the Catholic Church has been prominent in developing processes of peace-building that include “accompaniment” of the victims to include them in structures of citizen participation. It ends with theological and pastoral reflections on how this can be enabled practically in the Columbian context.

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