To me, that doesn't seem so much in support for DRM, so much as support for something like the negation of "death of the author". I think there is room to say

To me, that doesn't seem so much in support for DRM, so much as support for something like the negation of "death of the author". I think there is room to say both "this was the authorial/creatorial intent behind Mario's sprite, which should be acknowledged as being distinguished by being the intent" and to say "I aesthetically appreciate this deviation from the creator's intent, more so than the original intent." The deviation in interpretation from the original intent is, I think, a new (derivative) creation, in a sense. (Though it may be an accident, and might not have an intent to create behind it.)