[jasonjmcghee]

Original comparison was discussing how writing words with a pencil that exist already and aren't your original creation isn't drawn art, and a response was given that seemed to imply photographs were pictures capturing something that they didn't create, implicitly prompting the suggestion that just because you didn't create the subject of the art doesn't mean it's not art.

If you take a picture of a stone fountain and claim the photograph is art, is it copyright infringement because you didn't sculpt the fountain?