Mike Berger wrote:

How do you distinguish between that and someone who produces limited
edition etchings or lithographs? They involve others in the process.
Are Barye bronze sculptures all worthless because they were cast from
Barye's models under his authorization, but not by his own hand?
The art world considers those to be works "by" the original artist.

In those cases everyone knows that the artist did not produce the copy.


Lobby Dosser wrote:

But what Arch is talking about is not plagarism or copying or
inspiration. He's Talking about DaVinci outsourcing the Mona Lisa and
then signing it. Or Shakespeare outsourcing Hamlet and passing it off
as his own.