Appropriation

Appropriation has both its good aspects and its bad ones and trying its good points and its bad  points, and trying to control it is a futile effort.   Appropriation is when one takes ideas from another and uses them as their own.  

It can be understood that all ideas and creativity is based off the world around us and people generate ideas from the ideas of others and what is around to influence them.  Essentially people feed off of each other.  Appropriation, in my opinion, is fine as long as people take the ideas or images and turn them into their own.  The image or idea must be totally different than the original, therefore making it your own work. 

If people take and image or idea and do not in any way change or alter it, then it can be considered copyright and stealing of other people's work.  One must be careful to change the work and turn it into their own.