What follows is a fascinating example of how one group of artist’s pulled parts and pieces of the work that preceded them and recast it as their own. It is not about relative unknown, in this case it is a side-by-side, shot-by-shot comparison (by StooTV) of George Lucas and Steven Speilberg’s “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and 30 other adventure films produced between 1919-1973.
My point is, questions of intellectual property are complex. When does borrowing become stealing? When is imitation, transformation? What is the difference between the idea and the expression of it?
StooTV’s Raiders of the Lost Archives…
In a TEDTalk based on his book, Steal Like An Artist, Austin Kleon says, “There is no longer good art and bad art, there’s just art worth stealing and art that isn’t.”…
An aside, some behind-the-scenes footage from a Japanese television production (NHK), The Pioneers of the Visual Revolution…
A massive collection of Steven Spielberg-related materials…
Posted in APRIL 2020 / Chuck Green is the principal of Logic Arts, a design and marketing firm, a contributor to numerous magazines and websites, and the author of books published by Random House, Peachpit Press, and Rockport Publishers. All rights reserved. Copyright 2007-2020 Chuck Green/Logic Arts Corporation. Contact.
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