Artist says Batman campaign stolen from her
![Could Batman really be guilty of stealing? That’s what a New York artist is saying after Warner Bros. released its “Find Batman” campaign this week. On Monday, a fictional police report was posted on the Dark Knight Rises website featuring a grainy photo of the masked crimefighter and a list of his crimes (many of […]](http://darkknight.tribute.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/DarkKnight.jpg "Artist says Batman campaign stolen from her - The Dark Knight")
Could Batman really be guilty of stealing? That’s what a New York artist is saying after Warner Bros. released its “Find Batman” campaign this week. On Monday, a fictional police report was posted on the Dark Knight Rises website featuring a grainy photo of the masked crimefighter and a list of his crimes (many of which referencing 2008’s The Dark Knight). The report was in fact a map to a worldwide scavenger hunt for fans to help release the new (and likely final) trailer for the upcoming blockbuster. The photos are strangely similar to that of New York artist Skye Greenfield’s “Stop Superheroes” campaign she’s been spreading for the past six months. Since late 2011, Greenfield has been hanging wanted posters featuring iconic superheroes and a list of their crimes all over the Lower East Side, as well as in Washington D.C. and San Francisco as a means of artistic expression. Greenfield tells Lower East Side news outlet, Bowery Boogie, that in this case, imitation is not the sincerest form of flattery. “Warner Brothers may own the rights to Batman but I own my idea. This is not a project that I have been working on in secret or have been hiding from the world; it is a project that I have aggressively showcased on the streets of New York for six months.”
