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Google Violates Miro's Copyright?
Anonymous Coward writes "In a homage to Joan Miro on his birthday, Google changed its logo as to spell out the word "Google" in Miro's style. Google has a history of changing its logo in order to commemorate events and holidays of particular significance. In this case, the homage was not well received by the Miro family or the Artists Rights Society which represents them, as reported by the Mercury News. According to Theodore Feder, president of the ARS, "There are underlying copyrights to the works of Miro, and they are putting it up without having the rights". The ARS demanded that Google removed the logo, and Google complied, though not without adding that it did not believe it was in violation of copyright. The ARS has raised similar complaints regarding Google's tribute to Salvador Dali in 2002. "It's a distortion of the original works and in that respect it violates the moral rights of the artist," Feder said." It seems to me that the art world has a glorious history of incorporating prior art into modern creations. It's amusing to me that ARS doesn't understand that.
Ah so he's a socialist. Now I understand the motive behind why his "art" sucks so much.
Show me one socialist who actually learned how to illustrate (grafitti and Che Gueverra portraits don't count) and actually knows how to draw in more than two dimensions and I'll show you a home-built rocketship that can travel to Pluto, deploy a robot that terraforms it into a paradise of palm trees and naked chicks, and fly back to Earth in one piece.