The issue of plagiarism and appropriational art. Knowing that the work was borrowed from the Thai photographer and minimally modified jury immediately stripped of the Swiss award

the Sasin Tipsy — talented photographer from Thailand, who decided to share their photos on the website Pixabay. This is a database of free photos and images, the authors have donated their work into the public domain. The rules Pixabay says that all content will be free to use, even for commercial purposes, but some images may be protected trademarks and the rights for personal or public use. Ie you can print b most of the images from the site on Wallpapers or t-shirts. But nowhere does it say that you can give work from Pixabay base for their own.

But that's what made the Swiss Madeleine Josephine, FIRC (Madeleine Josephine Fierz) to participate in the international Fine Art photography competitions Photo Awards in April and the Moscow International Foto Awards in July. It is minimally altered images – for example, one of them mirrored and added to the background of a man on an elephant. A portfolio for the competition it was accompanied by the following comment: "In my travels I speak to important topics. These pictures from Asia is the result of my photo projects. These children and these women have amazed me. I find special places and try to capture the mood". As a result, the Fine Art Photo contest she won the contest and received a prize of $3,000, and in the Moscow contest — $100.

Seeing borrowed photos, Sasin Tipsy wrote on his page on Facebook: "My work was used by the foreigner in order to win the contest... 99% of its portfolio belongs to me."

as soon As the fact of plagiarism has been set, the jury of both competitions immediately stripped of Madeleine Josephine, FERC received premiums. "The jury MIFA is following very closely all such cases we are investigating and removed the controversial image, as soon as confirmed the fact of plagiarism. For us it is almost impossible to identify whose image, if only the real authors do not tell us how this time," @ - commented on the decision of the jury, MIFA. In their defense, the Swiss said that since she bought those pictures, then decided that they could slightly modify and submit as their art.

true. The line between plagiarism and appropriational art in our days too blurred. Why is best known to fans of borrowings Richard Prince and Jeff Koons, you can use other people's images in their works and earn millions, and the young photographer's not? And it is extremely difficult to determine at what point the image can already be considered sufficiently altered to give him for his work, and what is not. The same Prince and Koons, though they proclaimed the freedom of borrowing, regularly suing a less well-known authors of the works underlying their contemporary-арта. And they often lose these courts.

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources: nextshark.com, artinvestment.ru

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