OK, I thought long and hard on this, and I still feel this is not ethical, but I would value others opinions too. Now that I own photoshop, I have been exposed to a new medium that seems to use things (*resource photos and such) in ways I was trained to think wrong. 

This is a hypothetical example:

There is an artist, they used several photos of other artist's works they took photos of in a gallery,  to photoshop them together and create a montage picture that is listed as "*thier" art. Now back in the day when I first started using PSP(*baby step towards PS), and doing Sigs (*cut and paste pics to depict a theme or someone, simuliar to an avatar), so many artists were angry at the sig communities for "sampling" and "marrying/combining" thier art with anywhere from 1-4 seperate other artist's works, to make one sig.

So I was trained and learned early on to respect and not "borrow" others work to "create" my own. It was explained to me that that was copyright infringement.

So when this artist here does exactly the same thing, to create art... is it wrong in the eyes of the photoshop community?

I really would like to know because as some of you may know I am very much aware and involved in striking down the 'orphin works act' currently being examined in congress. It essentially gives others the right to "borrow" art from any artist not listed in one of 3 enities (*not int. copyright law) to use very much like this. I feel it is wrong and on many levels inappropriate, and unethical. But as I said it comes from learning what was right and wrong from other well known artist's points of view.

How does the photshop community as a whole feel about this? Part of the reason I learned Poser/Vue/etc, was to make my own resource art, so that I never was tempted to "borrow" from another inappropriately ever again. Just plain confused.

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Ariana

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