You people are being typical internet haters. I don't think her work is great or art or anything to celebrate. Yes they are vapid portraits and she has a team of like 20 people create them like a movie. But don't say they are 'bad' photographs. They might not be your style but like the criticism "they are only as interesting as the subjects." Sometimes they are and that's enough! She has taken a lot of good photographs. With that said, the Disney ads are truly horrible and creepy.

Regarding Koons - the thing I don't get is "albeit in a different medium" isn't shifting the medium enough to remove it from copyright? Let's say Koons' M. Jackson and Bonzo sculpture was based on a photo he saw in Star magazine - isn't turning a tiny photo in a magazine into a giant porcelain object original enough? Or what about Richter doing paintings based on photographs (or Warhol?)