Flipping the question around exposes the court's bias towards their own. In this case the court claims this is an ordinary photo, not an artistic work; okay, t

Flipping the question around exposes the court's bias towards their own. In this case the court claims this is an ordinary photo, not an artistic work; okay, that means one should easily be able to find hundreds to thousands of similar photos taken and disseminated in non-professional contexts. Image searching the internet through several search providers brings back only references to this case and more of Zhang's work. It should also mean that Jeff's pieces are not original art work, do not get copyright protection either, and are essentially art fraud. This ruling should open him up to getting sued by anyone who thought they were buying an original art piece, only to find after this ruling that they bought an average Joe's random photo, this should include the gov't supported exhibit, which should want to revoke Jeff's prize. With this ruling there really are not two ways about this. Either Zhang's work is original and Jeff copied it without asking, or Jeff's work is not original either and therefore isn't worthy of winning a prize or being sold as original art work.