As everyone is saying Prince's method is not okay, I will try to defend him. First, Copyright should nurture creation, not ban it. So what Prince is doing shoul

As everyone is saying Prince's method is not okay, I will try to defend him. First, Copyright should nurture creation, not ban it. So what Prince is doing should not be illegal/impossible, but maybe he should have to pay the original artist. How much is fair? Before Prince entered the room, we had a simple selfie on instagram. Or a Marlboro ad most people did not care to look at. Everyone could have just gone to the copy shop and hang it on their wall, but noone did so. It was not very valuable. Now Price enters the room. He does something simple, and people are willing to give him a lot of money for it. It's not because of the original work, but because of his work. He could have choosen many other original works, it would have worked the same. Should Price pay money to the original artist? Sure ... but not more than a regular stockphoto licence. Maybe 500USD? I guess he would be fine with that.