It does not help the cause of creative appropriation to blur the distinctions between inspiration, influence, reproduction, parody, gloss, trope, collage, and so on. Instead these distinctions need to be sharpened so that those on the side of opening creative possibilities can approach the issues involved with more clarity than the functionaries of the monopoly of the mental landscape.
To say for instance that the iconic image of mickey mouse can be appropriated freely because after all mickey mouse was inspired by the existence of real mice, quite frankly deserves the quick drubbing it will receive by the protectors of capital’s copyrights.
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