with a change in color) has been taken from a Pottery Barn catalog, and the exercise equipment and kitchen appliances have been lifted from magazines (perhaps from advertisements within those magazines, but possibly from copyrighted material used in the same way the collage is intended to be used). The figure has been taken from an unspecified online source and had her shorts and hair color altered.
The second argument is that the resulting image is art, which places it above most of the original source images, especially those taken from the catalog and the Internet. Art has a long tradition of using previous works of all kinds for inspiration and manipulation. This argument suggests that artists have always appropriated images and then made them their own, and that this is simply one more such example. As Debora J. Halbert observes, "Texts in the information age are especially difficult to place boundaries around. The individual proprietary author is in many ways a myth of the copyright system that ignores the way cultural production operat
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