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Legal Controversies Forum / Re: Instagram images and Prince transformative work worth $90,000

« on: June 07, 2015, 12:54:23 PM »

The artists are fighting back:

http://distractify.com/Mustafa-Gatollari/suicide-girls-revenge/

As I suspected, whats good for the goose.....the artists are too making a very slight change, adding one line of text and offering the transformative works at 1/1000th of the price, with the proceeds going to charity.

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Legal Controversies Forum / Re: Instagram images and Prince transformative work worth $90,000

« on: June 02, 2015, 11:01:03 PM »

Mr Prince has been sued before over some Rastafarian images he 'transformed', and he won, thus setting the bar for transformative works so low.

I can see clipping out images from magazines and newspaper, then using them as a collage (fulfilling transformative work), but this screen shot and adding copy (text narrative) below an image, well that is pretty loosey goosey. This is exactly why I would like to hear more thoughts on the topic from this learned group.

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Legal Controversies Forum / Instagram images and Prince transformative work worth $90,000

« on: May 30, 2015, 09:14:25 AM »

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2015/05/25/a-reminder-that-your-instagram-photos-arent-really-yours-someone-else-can-sell-them-for-90000/?tid=sm_fb

I'd sure like to hear opinions regarding Mr. Prince's 'art'.

I find it very interesting that taking a picture of a picture can be considered a 'transformative work', yet photocopying a book (basically taking a picture of the printed word) is a violation of copyright.

While the bar for transformative work may be currently set very low, I think there may be multiple points of law to be debated regarding Mr. Prince's form of artistic expression. I sure would like to observe these arguments.