Artists find inspiration virtually anywhere: the world itself provides queues to messages and stories that need to be told through photography, art, poetry and literature. An existing work might spark a new work or even inspire a statement or criticism of that original work, but artists, photographers and writers need to be aware when their adaptation might indeed cross the line into infringement. A recent article appearing in CNN chronicled one recent case. The artist in que
U.S. Copyright law exists to help promote creativity and innovation by providing a framework for protecting a creator's interest in their work so that they might benefit from dissemination of their work to the public. It is a creator's sole right to sell, distribute or create derivatives of their work. Infringement occurs when another party represents or adapts another person's intellectual property as their own without proper permission. That said, within copyright law exist
