Intellectual Property
Nov. 1, 2000
Mutilating Original to Make a Quick Buck
Every person has been moved by a beautiful work of art. It's a snapshot of reality that makes you think. It makes you happy, angry, sad, disgusted. It pries you open and shows you what you share with the rest of humanity and nature. Art documents the history of society. It defines the origins and progress of a people. To revise, censor or "improve" a work of art, then, is to falsify that culture.
Every person has been moved by a beautiful work of art. It's a snapshot of reality that makes you think. It makes you happy, angry, sad, disgusted. It pries you open and shows you what you share with the rest of humanity and nature. Art documents the history of society. It defines the origins a...
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