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Appropriation and Cultural Production.

This article discusses appropriation. The practice in which artists draw on ideas, characters, images, or some other icon from the culture that surrounds them and somehow alter them to change the meaning. This practice first began to emerge in force with Star Trek Fan-ficiton” and “slash fiction” stories that used already existing characters to create new stories that differ from the original medium(In the case of slash fiction these stories would focus on homosexual relationships that did not exist in the source material). In fact the internet was vehicle of a great deal of the cultural appropriation that followed. The self-publishing capabilities of the internet allowed almost anyone to make their own parodies or alterations of pop culture items and share them with millions of other people. Before the internet, US copyright laws made appropriation a difficult art medium to pursue. Altering someone else work for profit enters into legally dangerous ground and publishing without profit was a undertaking few could afford. With the internet it became possible to distribute work quickly an freely. It gave the general populace a new medium to express themselves and they often did so using the visual language they had learned from the world around them. Now fan-fiction covering all different kinds of media is commonplace on the internet and Youtube is filled with various parodies made by both professionals and amateurs.

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