copy wrong

these two articles were very interesting but the molotov one especially. I have a background in studio art and i have been painting far longer than i have been into film. And since i have been drawing of painting i have been practicing this same type of decontextualizing images for my own use. i guess in a sense stealing them whether it be from books and more so now a days the internet. i know my favorite drawing i have ever down is pretty much completely stolen from a copywrited image from an online photography website which sells their photos for commercial work. Although most of my work is for my own pleasure and not for sale at first i believed in what joy is saying.
But as i started to read susan's side i started to change my mind almost completely in a 180. The picture she took was during and certain time and place and held a certain meaning. When Joy took that image painted it and gave it a new name under the Riot exhibit it changed i symbolism of the image. i felt forget her argument.
but after hearing that she wanted money for the exhibition of the work if kind of felt like a cope out. she says all these things about how the image meant something different than joys title of "riot" but then it seems to all come back to the fact that she wanted money. i can see the argument from each side and its really interesting to read an article in this format. it reality art has been borrowed and "decontextualized" for ages and mostly likely will be with all the technology at our finger tips, for the rest of time. Some of my favorite bands do this is a musical sense Justice and daft punk take loops from other sources and turn then into a beat. Rap music is essentially only made through sampling. Last night i listen to a headed debate over kayne west by robert barnett and dylan pettengill. I threw in a line from 6x1 trying to make the point that shakespeare borrowed from greek tragedy and the bible haha thanks andre. they didnt really listen to me anyway but in my opinion are should be free to remake over and over again thats how things grown and evolve. Sometimes they grow in a negative way but thats how progression works i guess. i hope this "borrowing" does not become extinct because of law suits and copy-write law because and am an internet guerrilla image stealer myself. long live the molotov man