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by micks56 5470 days ago
I am a lawyer, and have studied copyright law, and in my opinion Baio's work is not even close to transformative.

Or course this is a matter of interpretation and we are deciding on degrees, but here is an example of what transformative is:

The case that Baio is relying on is Blanch v. Koons. Here is the original work: http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/images/silksandals.j...

Here is the work of the subsequent artist who was found to be "transformative": http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/images/koonsniagara_...

Can we agree that Baio's work doesn't arise to the level of transformativeness that the Koons work did?

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Is this legal advice?