Abstract
In the Monty Python film The Life of Brian, one of the most memorable moments is that particular scene in which a Roman soldier corrects Brian for misspelling ‘ROMANI ITE DOMUM’ in graffiti (having written ‘ROMANES EUNT DOMUS’ instead) and, as a punishment, makes him write it a hundred times over the wall surrounding the city. Even if this may be taken just as a funny scene, there are reports of people voicing their discomfort at the politicians of the time by writing on walls, both in Ancient Greece and Rome (although one hopes with better grammar than our friend Brian). As the origins of graffiti date back more than 2,000 years and considering how mainstream it has now become, the small amount of research that has been done on this topic from a copyright perspective really is surprising. Despite there being many works that deal with the topic incidentally, it was about time that someone provided a real taxonomy on the matter—such as the one Iljadica presents in her book.
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