Context of Infringement
Copyright claims based on questions of style are often tricky. In visual art, courts have sometimes ruled in favor of the copier rather than the copied. When the artist Richard Prince incorporated photographs by Patrick Cariou into his work, for instance, a 2013 court case found that some of the borrowing was legal under transformative use—Prince had changed the source material enough to escape any claim of infringement.
—The New Yorker
Related Topic
–Patrick Cariou’s work in the book of Yes Rasta (left) | Richard Prince’s work at Gagosian Gallery (right)