Jeff Koons may be a famous MICA alum but his ego is too big for his own good. He clearly pushed the copyright boundaries to its limits and lost. But hey guess what he can afford to, maybe he likes the negative attention too. I just don't understand why he chose a relatively unknown image from a relatively unknown artist and turned it from a photograph into a sculpture. It's also funny to see the original creator of the photograph caught Jeff Koons and actually challenged him. Maybe this was all in his favor to get known too. But a lot of people wouldn't have the guts to challenge Koons though he can pay his way out either way. I don't feel Koons could've been protected from the copyright law just because he transformed a 2d piece into a 3d one and altered colors. There's just waay more similarities than differences between the two..
Koon probably wanted to fuck with the system and see how far he could get. but it goes to show not a lot of art is original these days. someone has done something similar before. sometimes i feel grateful for america's copyright laws such as how it was used here, other times i feel frustrated because you have to walk on eggshells and becareful about what you use as reference and stating whether or not it is yours. But with technology it's become easy to do art theft, people upload their art, people take pictures of art. it's hard to avoid.
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