Richard Eden: Is Banksy finally about to be unmasked?
He's been called Britain's 'unlikeliest 国家の treasure'. But now, it seems, graffiti artist Banksy, whose 作品, やめる often featuring ネズミs and apes, sell for millions, is about to be 述べるd in rather いっそう少なく flattering 条件 ? in the High 法廷，裁判所. I can 公表する／暴露する that Banksy ? the pseudonym of Bristol-born, 53-year-old, public school-educated コマドリ Gunningham ? is 指名するd as the first 被告 in a 合法的な 活動／戦闘 告発する／非難するing him of defamation.
His co-被告 is the company Banksy 設立するd ? and playfully 指名するd Pest 支配（する）／統制する Ltd. Contrary to its 肩書を与える, the company sells his art, which is invariably produced, 夜通し and unseen, with the use of a stencil, and which now adorns the 味方するs of houses and 崩壊するing 塀で囲むs not only in Bristol and London, but everywhere from the West Bank to Detroit.
The man 始めるing the 活動／戦闘 is Andrew Gallagher, 56, an iconoclastic entrepreneur who started out in the music 産業, putting on raves in the 1990s, before 偉業／利用するing the 商業の 可能性のある of graffiti. 'I didn't realize it at the time, but most of the photographs I took were by a new kid on the 封鎖する who went by the 指名する of Banksy,' he explained in an interview last year, 追加するing that the cards and other 商品／売買する he sells are 'affordable 製品s for fans ? and there are millions of fans'.
He 拒絶する／低下するs to discuss the 差し迫った High 法廷，裁判所 対決, while his lawyer, Aaron 支持を得ようと努めるd of Brandsmiths, tells me that 詳細（に述べる）s are 現在／一般に 'confidential and will remain so until Banksy or Pest 支配（する）／統制する とじ込み／提出する their 承認 of service. For this 推論する／理由,' 支持を得ようと努めるd 追加するs, 'I'm not at liberty to say any more about the （人命などを）奪う，主張する.'
Banksy and Pest 支配（する）／統制する remain silent. After 首尾よく 適用するing for an EU trademark in 2014, they saw that 判決，裁定 overturned when Gallagher 控訴，上告d in 2021.?
The 裁判官s 公式文書，認めるd that Banksy, who had 宣言するd that 'copyright is for losers', had long 表明するd disdain for 知識人 所有物／資産／財産 権利s, and 広告 ded that it was difficult for him to 主張する on copyright while remaining 匿名の／不明の.
Last year, though, Banksy won a separate 活動／戦闘 which 確認するd his 権利 to trademark his 一連の images showing chimps with 挟む boards around their necks. But will Gallagher now make a monkey out of him in the High 法廷，裁判所 ? not least by 軍隊ing him to show his 直面する in public?
Banksy's real 身元 has never been fully 確認するd - and 憶測 continues to surround the mysterious artist.
However, in 2008 the Mail On Sunday （機の）カム as の近くに as anyone かもしれない can to 示唆するing his 身元 - using a photograph taken in Jamaica showing a man in a blue shirt and ジーンズs.
The Mail 新聞記者／雑誌記者s visited Bristol, said to be Banksy's home city, where a man （人命などを）奪う，主張するd the 身元 of the man in the photograph was コマドリ Gunningham. Banksy has 否定するd the photo is of him.?Read the 十分な story: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12586143/Will-Banksy-finally-unmasked.html?ito=msngallery
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