>Now, when the source material is someone else's property this means that without - someone else's property - you would have had no output. Exactly the same ha

>Now, when the source material is someone else's property this means that without - someone else's property - you would have had no output. Exactly the same happens with artists. The only artists who can claim not to have been influenced by seeing the work of other artists lived tens of thousands of years ago. So what makes it okay to process artwork via some processes but not others, when the ultimate output may in some way copy the input anyway?