In the era of cyber space, even the creation of art has changed in terms of method, outlook and interpretation. With the Internet serving as a well for creative thoughts and design, it is now easy to find and copy pictures and images to “create” art, a practice that has become common especially among the young.

Digital art. Digital print. These are what these art forms are called nowadays. Altering other people’s work is now being justified as a form of democratization or covered by free use. But if so, who is the creator of these “new” artworks? Who owns the art? Who conceptualized it? Can an image copied from the Internet and then altered already be considered art?

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