Copyright
I have also chosen to look at another area of interest that is copyright, I found an interesting copyright article online regarding a photographer named Richard Prince. He was taken to court regarding copyright infringement in 2008 :
The celebrated American artist Richard Prince has been ordered to destroy works worth tens of millions of dollars after a court ruled that the paintings, which reworked a series of photographs by the French photographer Patrick Cariou, had breached copyright.
A New York federal court has ruled that Prince and his gallery infringed Cariou's copyright when he produced a series of works in a 2008 show using 35 pictures from the book Yes, Rasta, published by Cariou in 2000, "in their entirety, or nearly so".
Richard Prince has adapted the work of Photogragher Cariou by adding, in one instance, an electric guitar and some splodges for eyes.
Princes lawyers claimed "fair use" of the images. But as far as I can tell they are clearly plagiarised. The adaptations are at best minimal, they offer no new perspective. I fell that Cariou has every right to pursue Prince in court.
Looking at the images above it is clear that they closely resemble the original images taken by photographer, Cariou. Furthermore there has been little signifigant change to the images. If I was in Cariou’s position I too would be angry that my copyright was being infringed.
