A question worth raising is whether or not the concept of one’s art and its idea is ever safe? With the internet now being an major outlet for the publication of art, the copying and modification of this art is now simple.
Take for example Photoshop and its ability to change pictures in multiple ways. By adjusting the picture, we make it into something else entirely. While this is an expression of the one who is modifying it and now a means of displaying their idea, it is still made up of pieces of other art to form this collage. As a result, the intent of the original piece may have been lost of corrupted, thereby twisting the original intent of the artist but reflecting the idea on him still the same.
So is this ethical? Should we be allowed to use other’s work for our own purpose and thereby giving a whole new meaning to their work besides what it could do on their own? If I use the Mona Lisa and make her a skeleton, this makes the picture more ominous. This same violence reflects of Da Vinci, and is in a sort of awkward way its own form of libel.
That's really a hard question to answer. It depends even on who you ask. Reproducing it lets you "have your own" and lets it spread around the world. How else would we have learned about art without having to actually be there. On the other hand though your point is correct. When we completely change someone else's artwork we change the artists message. But my thoughts is that take their art and turn it into "our message."
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