There’s a fine line between being inspired by another person’s work and intentionally imitating a piece of work. During our table talk, we tried to come up with a definition as to what a ‘fake’ piece of work is.  Ultimately, our definition came down to whether or not the artist’s intentions are to purposely gain credit off of the previous artist. If so, then that is a fake. However, if the artist is inspired by another individual’s work and does not claim to be that original artist in any form, then that is not fake work.

The issue with our definition and why this topic is so interesting is because one’s intensions cannot be truly known. Therefore, we thought that the best way to bring to surface the answer is by looking at previous trends and to what extent how is credit given to the original artist.