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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 144649" data-attributes="member: 9240">You have the spirit of the law, but the way in which "new expression, meaning or message" is applied and "alter" is interpreted depends an awful lot on the size of the pockets of the person from which it was appropriated.  And should the appropriated image contain an otherwise trademarked representation of some kind...I had no idea how deep this stuff went until I watched that documentary (which I didn't even realize was about copyrights - I thought it was purely about mash-ups).  Copyright law is ridiculous, and yet impossible to enforce.  The idea of my stuff getting used wouldn't bother me so much if I knew we all played by the same rules.</blockquote>