Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/30

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Lens Designs and history- the only take
From: Austin Burbridge <LIGHTandPOWER@ibm.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 16:58:36 -0700

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!