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> Let's say you took 10 paintings by Michelangelo and scanned them into
your computer. If, by cutting and pasting, you merely took the head of
one person in one painting and put it on the body of another person, your
creation wouldn't be all that much and somebody could say "he's stealing".
> > If you were to scan each painting and cut them all up down to the
individual pixel, though, add some weird color processing and whatever
else you can do with a scanned image and then rearrange it so that nobody
could ever know (unless you wanted them to) that you used Michelangelo, is
that not creative? Are you "stealing" something? Maybe you're creating
True, but then again, Michelangelo's work is public domain. :)
Elson