10 July 2017 | Appropriation Art: The Fine Line between a Copy and an Original Work
"Images and Texts reproduced", XIth International IAWIS/AIERTI Conference at the University of Lausanne Appropriation art has been subject to several lawsuits artists initiated for copyright infringement. A legal analysis of appropriation art shows the uneasiness of copyright law to come to grips with this artistic phenomenon. Because the appropriation artist copies without the permission of the copyright holder, copyright law tends to consider it as in breach of an artist