Despite how it might appear on your Instagram feed, the internet is not necessarily a copyright wasteland. 

Case in point: Appropriation artist Richard Prince used images taken by photographers Donald Graham and Eric McNatt as part of his “New Portraits” series. By that, I mean Prince found copies of the portraits—Graham’s titled “Rastafarian Smoking a Joint” and McNatt’s of the musician Kim Gordon—posted them to Instagram, commented on them, and then printed that all out onto canvas and sold the “New Portraits” for tens of thousands of dollars apiece.