In early January 2017, "appropriation artist" Richard Prince sent back the $36,000 he received for a painting of Ivanka Trump, a portrait he based on an Instagram shot of her. He coupled this with a tweet stating, "This is not my work. I did not make it. I deny. I denounce. This fake art." In addition to making a political point, by disavowing ownership of an image that he had created and had already sold, Prince raises controversial legal questions about moral rights, practiced in some other countries, and ____________, practiced in the United States

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The legal questions raised by Richard Prince's actions pertain to copyright law in the United States. Moral rights, which give authors certain control over their work even after it has been sold or licensed, are not recognized in the same way in the US as they are in some other countries. "Textual poaching" refers to the creative re-use and re-appropriation of existing cultural materials, but is not relevant to this particular situation. The "producer function" and "author function" relate more to the theoretical frameworks surrounding cultural production and interpretation, and are also not directly tied to the legal issues at play here.

In Early January 2017, "Appropriation Artist" Richard Prince Sent Back