Natasha 
🇪🇺"Instead of using actual spray cans, some artists are just cleaning dirt off of certain areas to make their masterpieces and they are calling it reverse graffiti"
(This one is by Paul 'Moose' Curtis of the Reverse Graffiti Project )
Kevin Karhan 
@Natasha_Jay also unlike a real #Graffiti, #ReverseGraffiti are not considered #vandalism and thus is unlikely to be prosecuted as such...
- Which is the main reason to do these instead of a Graffiti, as lack of (permanent) damage makes even the most aggressve cops fail to ticket folks.
Heather 👻@kkarhan @Natasha_Jay .. definitely not legal advice as there has been businesses that have done reverse graffiti in the UK and gone to court over it with varying results.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-36120297
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/9310651.store-faces-fine-for-pavement-graffiti/
GunChleoc@Akki @kkarhan @Natasha_Jay Those are ads, not art, so fair dos to the councils not wanting that on their pavements.
@gunchleoc @Akki @Natasha_Jay yeah, and it propably violates #advertising #regulations that seem to be far stticter in the #UK than #Germany, with ordinances only allowing #ads in designated spots.
- Given that cities do make money with the revenue of said advertising #displays (or the taxes applicable) they have a vested commercial interest going after businesses trying to skirt that.
It would certainly be different if this was like a political graffiti that could not be attributed to a big corporation like #IKEA, which rightfully got told this isn't fine.
- Tho pretty shure folks reverse-graffitiying "Refugees Wecome!" and/or "Trans Rights Are Human Rights - TERFs and SWERFs, YOU ARE NEXT ON THE CHOPPING BLOC!" won't sign that with their names...
Steffi the Redhead@kkarhan @Natasha_Jay I wouldn't count on that. The city of Cologne has persecuted it already:
@fuchsi @Natasha_Jay updated my post accordingly.
Dieu@fuchsi @kkarhan @Natasha_Jay Aber irgendwas muß so eine notorisch unausgelastete Staatsanwaltschaft ja machen.