Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]L.H.O.O.Q. -- M. Duchamp needed only to put moustaches on La Gioconda, pace Jim Brick! >At 12:54 PM 7/30/1999 -0700, Austin Burbridge wrote: > >The exception -- sometimes -- is parody, although this is being > >tested in the U.S. courts. > >Well, the defense of parody is that no one will be fooled into believing >the satirical image to be the REAL thing. Take a picture of the Mona Lisa >and insert, say, Jim Brick's face in place of the lady's phizz. No one, >but no one, will pay money for this "artwork" believing it to be the divine >original. > >Marc > >msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 >Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!