Patrick JamesWhenever an artist puts his or her work online, s/he risks having it appropriated by someone else. In the following short video, the artist Gwenn Seemel offers her take on art and theft in the digital age.
"Art = idea + technique + person," she writes. "And the 'person' part of this equation makes real art inimitable."
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