3. “The laws governing ‘intellectual property’ have grown so
expansive in recent years that artists need legal experts to
sort them all out. Borrowing from another artwork--as jazz
musicians did in the 1930s and Looney Tunes illustrators
did in 1940s--will now land you in court.
If the current copyright laws had been in effect back in
the day, whole genres such as collage, hiphop, and
Pop Art might have never have existed.”
– www.illegal-art.org, 2002