Appropriation

Appropriation is the use of someone else's artwork in a slightly altered way. It is not necessarily plagiarism if you say what you based your work off of and give credit to the original artist. It is also not plagiarism if it is made into something like a parody or a political cartoon. I think it is only okay to appropriate someone's artwork if you give them proper credit. It was their original idea and its not fair to just copy and change it a little bit.