Where Art and Law Collide: More on the Cariou v. Prince Case
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The Huffington Post’s Daniel Grant wonders if the Cariou v. Prince case will decide the “fate” of appropriation art. His article basically hammers in what we already know: that copyright law is a murky area, where the outcome of a fair use analysis is anyone’s guess.
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“the law hasn’t accepted two principals that are well understood in the art world. The first is that a change in medium is transformative.”
So I can print photographs of every sculpture Koons ever made on t-shirts and sell them without so much as a nod in his direction? I mean, that’s *doubly* transformative and therefore fair, right?