Weekend Herald

Court rules bullfight is not art

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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.

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