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Re:Your Instagram photos aren’t really yours: Someone else c... by KeytarHero on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @03:23PM (#9607045)
> It involves an artist who reappropriates them for artistic purposes (similar to parody)...he could've done this with any photo or off of any service...so this concept isn't even particular to the Internet and the digital age.

So why is this legal in the case of photographs, yet sampling (in music) remains illegal?

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Re:Your Instagram photos aren’t really yours: Someone else c... by nosuchthing on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @09:55PM (#9608862)
The legal crux seems to rely on if a significant amount of the original work has changed or been put into different context that sets it apart from the original work.

Examples being Vanilla Ice vs Bowie & Queen, and Girltalk/Illegal Art [1]

[1] http://illegal-art.net/girltalk

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