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Say I printed this comment. Put it in a frame and auctioned it as art. Would you be the artist for creating the comment? Or would I be the artist for using the
by datapunk 7y ago
Say I printed this comment. Put it in a frame and auctioned it as art.
Would you be the artist for creating the comment? Or would I be the artist for using the comment and framing it in a creative way?
- rectangletangle 7y agoBoth?
- Jach 7y ago"Derivative work" is the phrase to resolve any conundrums here.
- phjesusthatguy3 7y agoThere's a HN story from the past year or two about someone literally printing out other people's Twitter and/or Facebook pages and selling the prints in galleries for $thousands. I don't know the correct search terms to find it but it's out there. EDIT: Richard Prince[0] I guess I've been on HN longer than I thought. [0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10689889 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10689889
- grepthisab 7y agoWhen Andy Warhol printed soup cans and put the prints in galleries, were the Campbell's logo designers the artists, or was Warhol?
- ChefboyOG 7y agoI'm having art school flashbacks please stop hurting me.
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoCeci n'est pas une pipe.