Appropriation

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Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

In art, appropriation is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them. The use of appropriation has played a significant role in the history of the arts (literary, visual, musical and performing arts).

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Appropriation (art)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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