ARE YOU KIDDING??????????????
FREE SPEACH THE CARDS WERE TOSSED OUT!!!
LEAVE HER ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MTA —-WHAT DO YOU EXPECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????
I think if she painted RATS on them they would sell like “hot cakes”

The MTA gets a fare from every rider. They get tax revenues from all real estate transactions in the city. Every cell phone and telephone bill has an MTA tax. Every employer pays an MTA tax on payroll. Is this not enough money for all the LAZY slobs at MTA?? I’ve yet to see a CLEAN subway station or subway car. And service SUCKS. Greedy corrupt money hungry lazy people. Andy Warhol never would have had this problem.

It does not matter for two reasons, the artists has a right to use them as canvas if they are discarded and invalid and 2. they would not email her for this or ask for a cut if it was a real issue. An attorny would write a certified letter, notorized and hand delevered but they know they have little foot to stand on. Sorry, the email is a fraud.

As an artist, I know that she has the right to use it and would win in a court of law for she is not mass producing the item and the MTA does not have a valid recylcling program to prevent the use of what becomes trash upon eperation.

The MTA logo should’ve been painted over. They dont deserve the free advertising. She should send the MTA a bill for all the advertising that was provided instead.

I might buy one if she painted a picture of those rats I saw the last time I rode on the subway. Maybe that girl slurping spaghetti would be another I’d consider buying.

leave the woman alone and let her do her art and sell it! HOUNDS!

1. MTA are PIA and trolls. The lady should just blot out any MTA logo or any text with her paint. Done, nothing to sue over, cant see the trademarks anymore.
2. How many people are sick of this CBS News site refreshing every minute and you lose where you where on the page reading and have to scroll down to where you where. CBS Turn the FREAKING Refresh off of your site!! There is absolutely no need for it and it is freaking annoying!!!!!!!!!

MTA, what do you expect?

GOOD job MTA. $48? Is she even collecting the sales tax on her site?

Hey I took picture of me and my GF at times-square. Only problem there are signs of 123 and A to F trains in background. Should I keep it ??? I am afraid MTA will come after me as there brand logos are appearing in back..infact there are logos of another companies as well.

F …… MTA

Emotions and irrelevant arguments about who owns garbage aside, the question is whether she has the right to produce and sell items with someone’s trademark on it. She certainly doesn’t have the right to PRODUCE the trademark, but she can SELL items that the trademark owner produced, just in the same way she can sell her used Nike sneakers. So long as she is not adding or recreating a trademark she does not own, the MTA has no claim whatsoever, and they should certainly know that.

I’m not a lawyer blah blah blah, but a one will certainly chime in with the same sentiment, I’m sure.

After yet another weekend subway nightmare with virtually none of the trains I rely on stopping at the stations I needed, or taking random other lines for part of the trip, or stopping at stations on the uptown but not the downtown, stories like this really get my goat. The MTA is possibly the worst run subway system in the world and it thinks it has time to go after a small time artist who’s recycling their trash? I pay $108 per month for trains that are filthy, late, slow and completely inadequate. I’m constantly held up by “signal malfunctions” or “due to an earlier incident” or any of the other excuses the MTA gives for why I can’t get from A to B in time.

I have a deal. Let’s do a serious study, of how many billions of dollars per year is lost by the city of NYC as a whole due to the disgusting state of the MTA’s public transport system. How many lost hours, how many meetings missed, how many late workers. And then maybe the MTA can pay back this money, minus of course the fortune lil’ old East Village artist lady is making. Sound fair?

If you put something in the trash , and some one comes by and picks it up and use it ,it is theirs it is no longer yours. you ever heard of finders keepers losers weeper. The MTA should find a way to help the artist. give her a platform to work, she has a great idea, instead of grabbing ,why don’t the MTA start giving.

Start cleaning up the nasty platforms and trains.

Free advertising. They should be paying her.

Maybe instead of going after artist…How about ridding the system of all the rats and that includes the idiots going after this woman

Can’t wait until they start charging for seats & hand poles ASIDE from the fare itself

seriously, before they complain, let them clean the garbage leftover at stations..

What does the MTA do with used cards, throw them out? So they never heard of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle? They’d rather have something thrown out than the “Reuse” of those 3 Rs?

Bloombergmania is alive at the MTA

What can you say? It’s New York MTA? But I do not think they should go after the artist…. They should HIRE her to do artwork in their stations and cars. and let her sell her cards

No, the MTA has no grounds to govern what happens to its garbage. Once the cards are paid for, customers can do whatever they want with them.

COMMUNIST, FACIEST, AMERICA. JESSY VENTURA FOR PRESIDENT.

GARBAGE=ABANDONMENT IN LEGAL TERMS. PLAIN AND SIMPLE.

For crying out loud, the MTA does not have enough money. The Metro Cards were paid for and purchased from the MTA, which means they no longer own them.
More power to this artist Victoria. I think what she has done is creative and very artistic. Much luck to you Victoria, you deserve it.

they’re garbage that has been thrown out. only the MTA would complain.