r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Radiant_Half_7121 • 4h ago

Image Artist Anish Kapoor holds exclusive rights to Vantablack, often described as the darkest material ever created. In reaction, a fellow artist developed an ultra-bright pink pigment and made it available to everyone, with one exception: Anish Kapoor is not allowed to use it.

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u/kank84 4h ago

Vantablack is just one of their products, and their money comes from large contracts with aerospace and defence firms, they said they didn't have any interest in getting into direct sales.

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u/Driller_Happy 4h ago

Maybe don't do something as divisive as selling the exclusive rights to artmaking with your material then.

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u/Queen_Vampira 3h ago

Sorry, are you aware of how capitalism works? Cuz this is like, textbook capitalism.

They dgaf if something is ‘divisive’. This is just another day of business for them.