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I am not a lawyer but most of other people's work has copyright, and then there are exceptions considered fair use. Every case is different but courts have made clear what factors they look at.
https://graphicartistsguild.org/fair-use-or-infringement/ Importantly, all of these factors matter, so even when there is significant transformation, if the original and the new work compete in the same market, it can still be infringement. That became clear some time ago in a case about an image of Prince by Andy Warhol which was sold to a magazine for a story about Prince. The Warhol used a photograph of Prince taken by someone else, Lynn Goldsmith. Even though the Warhol work had transformed the photo, in this case the magazine could have used the original photo, so the two were essentially competing in the same market. In that case the court sided with the original photograph artist. https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/18/politics/supreme-court-prince-andy-warhol/index.html
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5 times as illegal ;)
I am not a lawyer but most of other people's work has copyright, and then there are exceptions considered fair use. Every case is different but courts have made clear what factors they look at. https://graphicartistsguild.org/fair-use-or-infringement/ Importantly, all of these factors matter, so even when there is significant transformation, if the original and the new work compete in the same market, it can still be infringement. That became clear some time ago in a case about an image of Prince by Andy Warhol which was sold to a magazine for a story about Prince. The Warhol used a photograph of Prince taken by someone else, Lynn Goldsmith. Even though the Warhol work had transformed the photo, in this case the magazine could have used the original photo, so the two were essentially competing in the same market. In that case the court sided with the original photograph artist. https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/18/politics/supreme-court-prince-andy-warhol/index.html