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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
There are lines. "It's in the public sphere... We can interpret it any way we like" is not a total license to warp any art you like into campaign ads.
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Now this is the most bizarre thing I'm likely to read all day. Yes, it absolutely is. Total license. What good is art if you can't misinterpret it? Who decides? Are politicians specially prohibited from making the case that a work of creative imagination supports or challenges a worldview?
Keep in mind both left and right will be making apologies to the estate of George Orwell if you're right.
ETA I see you said "campaign ads." I don't know whether licensing rules would allow that or not, but it hampers the debate. The issue is more clear when it's a candidate who always takes the stump to "Born in the USA" over the PA.
