$90 or $90,000? // Instagram user offers discount prices to fight artist selling $90,000 screenshots of her photos
http://mashable.com/2015/05/28/richard-prince-instagram/ When Selena Mooney found out that an artist was selling printed versions of her company's Instagram pictures without permission for $90,000 each, her "first thought" wasn't anger about potential copyright infringement, but rather shock at the ludicrous price tag. "I honestly can't imagine spending $90,000 on anything other than a home or piece of property," Mooney, founder of SuicideGirls, an online community for pin-up models, wrote in a Reddit AMA about the issue this week. "But to spend it on a print out of an instagram photo some old rich new york dude screen captured as art? I guess it's true what they say about some people having more money than sense." - - - The entire art sales world is basically a fraud anyway. For a fascinating view on this, see Orson Welles' 1973 "F for Fake": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIVgUjj6RxU --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
