Court rules bullfight is not art
Ernest Hemingway described bullfighting as “art”, and the only kind in which the “artist is in danger of death”. And yesterday the limits of the “art form” were tested when a panel of judges at Spain’s supreme court ruled on a top fighter’s attempt to copyright his most famous kill. The court dismissed Miguel øngel Perera’s case, saying that a routine could not be protected as it was not a preconceived artistic sequence, but rather a moment of improvisation. The ruling ends a seven-year legal battle over Perera’s 2014 performance in Badajoz, Extremadura.