ARTISTIC LICENCE HOLDINGS DRIVERS

To get away with such offences requires artistic licence and an ability to summon major players from a branch of the entertainment industry into court to assure the jury that, despite the evidence before their very eyes, the object in the dock is not disgusting or vilifying or inflammatory because it has artistic merit. This intrinsic quality (so they say) is why they can sometimes get away with being quite offensive despite being morally disgusting or racially vilifying or politically inflammatory. They are objects with a very peculiar intrinsic goodness of such purity and potency that they are priceless, as well as quite expensive. The current theory - if that's not too grand a name for it - is that works of art are not like other things. With artistic licence you can be quite offensive and get away with it without artistic licence you need to be a lot more careful.Īrtistic licences are distantly related to the so-called 'artistic merit' defence, on which you may need to rely should you be prosecuted for offences such as publicly cultivating a garden bed in the shape of a hammer and sickle, like Morgan (in the film of the same name).

ARTISTIC LICENCE HOLDINGS DRIVERS

It's more like having a drivers licence, with which you can endanger the public, open a bank account and identify yourself conveniently. Artistic licence should not to be confused with the more licentious artistic license (spelled with an 's'), that legitimises mis-statements of fact.

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