What is appropriation in art?

But this sparks an interesting comparison with the tech world. Reimplementing products is pretty much how things work here, and multiple implementations are considered a good thing.

For example WebSQL isn't a standard because there's only one implementation (SQLite.)

Equally there are myriads of Open Source offerings that are positioned as "alternative to x" and which are clones, or started as clones. (Think Linux being a free Unix etc).

This ability to take an idea, to move it in a different direction, to tweak it in interesting ways, is fundamentally how the world of software works.

It will be fun to see how this is viewed 100 years from now - other industries (cars, planes etc) have consolidated and the initial explosion of ideas has become history.

Re: What is appropriation in art?

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Post by janalsncm » Sun, Sep 24, 2023, 2:58 AM UTC

> The practice of lifting and altering pre-existing matter has been common within the art world since at least the early 20th century

I strongly believe there’s nothing new under the sun. I see no hard boundary between content with minimal alterations (e.g. mashups) and content which seems completely original. At some point on this spectrum we draw a boundary of legal protection, but it’s people who decide that line, not some law of nature.

Re: What is appropriation in art?

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Post by conception » Sun, Sep 24, 2023, 3:12 AM UTC

bruce511 wrote: post #4

I'm no artist, so I will leave the art discussion to my betters. But this sparks an interesting comparison with the tech world. Reimplementing products is pretty much how things work here, and multiple implementations are considered a good thing. For example WebSQL isn't a standard because there's only one implementation (SQLite.) Equally there are myriads of Open Source offerings that are positioned as "alternative…

Fashion too is a realm where your ideas have very little ownership attached to them. New ideas, rather than protecting your old ones, is the name of the game.