Copyright Rauchenberg litigation

Morton's images has also been incorporated in to the work of such prominent artists as Robert Rauschenberg, as described in the following news clipping:

On Mar. 2, Artnet.com's online auction hammered down Robert Rauschenberg's historic work Pull (1974) for $13,000, well over its high estimate of $10,000. Consignor was San Francisco photographer Morton Beebe, who back in the 1970s sued Rauschenberg for incorporating Beebe photographs into Rauschenberg Pop art collages. Rauschenberg settled the suit by giving a copy of the print to Beebe, and subsequently began taking his own photographs to use in his works. The artnet.com documentation of the sale featured letters from the artist and the original source photographs that Rauschenberg used. Beebe also offered a signed copy of his original photograph.

Below "Mexico Diver" is one of the Beebe images that was misused, and below this is the "Rauchenberg Print" artwork that used the image.