Because Damien Hirst Has Not Had Enough Publicity Lately

If this story is true, I just ... don't even know where to begin tee-ing off on it. Leading with my big disclaimer that copyright infringement is bad, Kids, it pains me to point you towards a story in The Independent that reports half-a-billionaire Damien Hirst has gone after a schoolboy who used snippets of For the Love of God to create graffiti designs. Supposedly this would be acceptable on an anonymous wall, but the young artist further sold around £200 worth of prints of his design and that caused a problem with Hirst or his legal team. (I added "legal team;" according to the article, it was Hirst himself demanding redress.)

So, if I have this straight: Damien Hirst can appropriate ideas as and when he chooses, disregard legal complaints from other artists whose work he has been accused of "borrowing," sell said works for astronomical sums as his (concept) when his own hand has not touched them, and then sic legal counsel on a 16 year old who has done roughly the same, albeit on a rookie scale? Gotta say, my sympathy is with the school boy on this one.