Fair Use

Topics for discussion:
1. "Intent of the user - how they plan to use the work - matters to the court."
Regardles of intention if you copied you copied. It's fine if you do just don't call it by another name.
2. As artists it is definetly good for us to know and understand fair use and appropriation. Just to save our own butts.
3. In the end it is nearly impossible to claim one of your ideas as truly original. We have all been influenced and in someways someone else may reflect in your own work. You can not always give yourself all the credit. In the past people were praised for stealing ideas. Think of how many bible stories have been painted over and over again, like the last supper and the statues of David