Artist sues NRA for using Chicago’s famous bean sculpture in video

By Daniel Terrill

Patrons ice skating below the famous “Bean” sculpture in Chicago’s Millennium Park on a cold Dec. 5, 2015. (Photo: Daniel Terrill/Guns.com)
British sculptor Anish Kapoor filed suit against the National Rifle Association for using imagery of his famous “Cloud Gate” sculpture located in Chicago’s Millennium Park in a controversial recruitment video.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in a Chicago federal court, alleges the NRA violated copyright laws since the organization never asked permission to use sculpture nor did it remove the imagery after Kapoor requested the gun group to do so.
The complaint says Kappor “was shocked and outraged to learn that his sculpture had been used by NRA to support its despicable platform of promoting violence” and ownership of “military assault weapons” while blocking “any kind of meaningful gun control.”
Last April, the NRA used the sculpture, known locally as “The Bean,” in the promotional video titled “The Clenched Fist of Truth” or “The Violence of Lies” in which spokeswoman Dana Loesch denounced the media and its “liberal agenda,” the lawsuit says, adding, “It is a clear call to armed violence against liberals and the media.”
Kapoor contacted the NRA in June 2017 to remove the imagery and penned an open letter blasting the NRA

Source: Guns.com