Persuasive writing.

So today we looked at persuasive writing. We began looking at this by being given 3 questions and being asked if we thought it was OK or if it was no OK and where asked to give our opinions on why we thought that after we heard peoples views on the questions we were able to move again and there was a good percentage of people that moved to another side after hearing someone elses opinion because they were being persuasive.

The main topic of the group chat was about how an artist named Richard Prince went on to instagram and took peoples images, made them bigger and then put them in a gallery and sold them as his own for thoundsans. Instagram states in there terms and conditions that anything posted on to instagram can be taken and used by someone else and it's not classed as copywrite. the views of this were very mixed as some people thought it was okay and others didn't.

This was my opinion:

Should we be able to sell uncopyrighted images? The answer to that is no.

I am 100% against selling someone else's work as your own, I don't see why it should be legal to take someone else's image that they have put the time and effort in to and sell it on as your own work and better yourself off of someone creation! Even if there is a slight change to the image such as colour, tone etc. It's till someone else's work.

On the 3rd of June 2015, an artist called Richard Prince took a load of images off people's Instagram accounts, printed them on to big canvases and put them in a gallery to sell. One of the images went for £90,000, an image that wasn't his that he still took the money for to better himself.

The amount of mixed opinions on this topic is crazy! Even if it is illegal, morally it is very wrong and selfish.