{"id":4872,"date":"2021-11-11T12:14:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T18:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/?p=4872"},"modified":"2021-11-11T12:14:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T18:14:26","slug":"caught-fake-justin-bieber-art-show-receives-cease-and-desist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/caught-fake-justin-bieber-art-show-receives-cease-and-desist\/","title":{"rendered":"CAUGHT: Fake Justin Bieber Art Show Receives Cease and Desist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caught red-handed.<\/p>\n<p>An art show claiming to exhibit the work of Justin Bieber has been exposed to be a hoax. The actual artist behind the show is Brian Whiteley, a Brooklyn artist, and owner of Satellite Art Show. Works were listed as $100,000 each.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 297px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2021\/11\/IMG-6093-1440x1920.jpg\" width=\"297\" height=\"396\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian Whiteley Posing as Justin Bieber<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In response, Bieber&#8217;s lawyers sent a cease and desist letter to Whiteley in which they accused the artist of\u00a0\u201cdirect infringement of our client\u2019s intellectual property rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The artist has since changed the name of his art show to &#8220;Justin Bieber is Suing Me&#8221;. Whiteley&#8217;s reasoning for posing as Justin Bieber to sell artwork is that he was intrigued by the allure that celebrities bring when they decide they want to be artists. He specifically gave the example of Hunter Biden&#8217;s $500,000 listed pieces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can tell why celebrities turn into artists\u2014all of a sudden you can make a buttload of money,\u201d Whiteley said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caught red-handed. An art show claiming to exhibit the work of Justin Bieber has been exposed to be a hoax.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":4875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[1096,1905,288],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4876,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions\/4876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askcarterlaw.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}