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Leftists Copying Leftists

Brian C. Ledbetter · Wednesday, March 26. 2008 14:20
Seriously, I'm torn as to which side I should take in this matter. Leftists accusing "unoriginal" leftist of artistic plagiarism, of artwork that was ostensively created "for the people" to use.

Incidentally, I'd imagine that the authors of this "Art for a Change" (sigh, there's that word again) article would be somewhat less than pleased with the People's Cube—though, as far as I can tell, the Cube's work is clearly a parody of the "iconic" leftist art that all of this hand-wringing is over, and to me, that's a whole lot more poignant than Fairey's work.

But hey, I'm an evil conservative. What'd you expect me to say?

(h/t Friedman Advocates of the aptly-named "What Is Fair Use?" blog)
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captainfish on 2008-03-26 18:18 #1
*is it really copyright to copy and manipulate an image from within a movie? If the set director creates posters, fake newspapers, etc for a movie and I take that image,... is that copyright infringement?

If a kid makes a chalk outline\design on a sidewalk and puts it on Youtube(tm), is it copyright infringement if someone who views that video uses a form of that image somewhere else?
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Rooster on 2008-03-26 19:11 #2
*It's 2008.. everything has been done. At this point everything is plagiarism.
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Brian C. Ledbetter on 2008-03-26 23:46 #3
*... uhh, Rooster? You feeling alright?

I believe that's the very first poignant point you've ever made over here!

Good to see the other side of Rooster!! ;-)

-b.
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Anonymous on 2008-03-27 08:39 #4
Mark Vallen is a Hack.

http://soluna.org/mark_vallen_is_a_hack.jpg
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captainfish on 2008-03-27 21:59 #5
*Yeah, that was rather... informative.

He must have upped his Ritalin dosage.
hehehee jk
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