Alteration and invention – Raphael, Vermeer and the mashup

And people think modern EULA's are bad. Look at the 500-year-old one quoted in the article:

"Hold! You crafty ones, strangers to work, and pilferers of other men’s brains. Think not rashly to lay your thievish hands upon my works. Beware! Know you not that I have a grant from the most glorious Emperor Maximillian, that not one throughout the imperial dominion shall be allowed to print or sell fictitious imitations of these engravings? Listen! And bear in mind that if you do so, through spite or through covetousness, not only will your goods be confiscated, but your bodies also placed in mortal danger."

This is actually a remarkably similar concept to the FBI warning [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Warning

I found this through Andy Ihnatko (http://ihnatko.com/2013/02/23/three-pipe-problem-alteration-...) who ties it in part to the (software) patent problem.