May 10, 2021 Appropriation/Transformation Comic #1: Picasso, Woman in a Hat, 1935/2021
After spending last month discussing the ambiguous boundaries of appropriation art and what may or may not count as fair use (parts one, two, three, and four), this week is the first in a series of experiments appropriating a work of art and transforming it into a comics sequence. I assume the final image would not violate copyright law, but I’m uncertain about any of the middle ones. More importantly, is Picasso’s untouched original transformed simply by the change in context? Sadly, the only way to find out is to be sued by Picasso’s heirs.
[Update: SCOTUS ruled on May 18, 2023, which I discuss here.]
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Andy Church
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Great stuff, especially helpful for gathering thoughts as we enter the age in which AI is poised to appropriate the entirety of human artistic output. One thing we found out recently, AI lies!! It will claim ownership of a term paper you wrote in high school!