Collage is the core technique of 20C art --if the law cld do something
we wld all be in jail -- if that isn't where we are anyway!
But please, Ira, don't borrow, steal!
Pierre
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Ira Lightman wrote:
> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 14:56:01 BST
> From: Ira Lightman <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: copyright with found/collage texts
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>
> Hallo everyone
>
> I'm thinking of extending my current collage
> practice (of using words from other texts in
> new orders) and using whole sentences in collage.
> Does anyone know if that means I now infringe
> copyright? At what point does, say, a characteristic
> two-word excerpt "swart ship", say, infringe
> copyright, rather than "elbow of"? When you get
> nicked for it, guvnor?
>
> Ira
>
>
>
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Dept. of English | of words and things that happen once and
SUNY Albany | once only, measurable but not repeatable, the
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