Wall Street Bull Artist Sues Random House, Authors over Book Cover

Was putting a photo of the famed Wall Street bull statue on the cover of A Colossal Failure of Common Sense a colossal failure of common sense? That’s the allegation of Arturo DiModica, the artist who created “Charging Bull,” installed the three-and-a-half ton bronze statue without permission in front of the New York Stock Exchange in 1989, and registered it with the copyright office nine years later. In a lawsuit filed yesterday in the U.S.