Richard Prince is a very rich jerkass who can afford to hire some very high-priced lawyers to argue that his work is right over the line of "sufficiently transf

Richard Prince is a very rich jerkass who can afford to hire some very high-priced lawyers to argue that his work is right over the line of "sufficiently transformative" in the eyes of the law. He's well over the lines of the unwritten rules of professional artists that I'm talking about. The corporations engaging in massive abuse of the grey areas of fair use to build these systems are, functionally, also very rich jerkasses who can afford to hire some very high-priced lawyers to make similar arguments.