Intellectual Property
Jun. 9, 2015
Instagram 'art' show? Not so fast
An artist copies someone else's Instagram photo, adds a silly comment, and sells it for thousands: Can he do that? By Stephen M. Doniger and Scott Alan Burroughs
Art appropriator Richard Prince's recent collection, "New Portraits," is little more
than a series of unauthorized, verbatim copies of other people's photographs that
he lifted from Instagram. Prince's contribution? A pithy, often nonsensical comment
he added below each photograph before slapping on a hefty price tag. Example: "richardprinc...
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