<P> View of the World has been imitated without authorization in a variety of ways . The work has been imitated in postcard format by numerous municipalities, states and nations . Steinberg had stated that he could have retired on royalties from the many parodies made of the painting, had they been paid, a motivation for his eventual copyright lawsuit for the Moscow on the Hudson use . Fulford, writing in The National Post, noted that the metaphor of the world as a suburb of Manhattan was "understood and borrowed" by the whole world . Local artists, especially poster artists, presented similarly compelling depictions of their own provincial perceptions . Fulford demonstrated the prominence of this work by mentioning that a high school in suburban Ottawa made imitating View of the World an assignment in its graphic arts class . He also noted that the result of this assignment was a worldwide variety of global foci from which the students viewed the world . </P> <P> The illustration--humorously depicting New Yorkers' self - image of their place in the world, or perhaps outsiders' view of New Yorkers' self - image--inspired many similar works, including the poster for the 1984 film Moscow on the Hudson; that movie poster led to a lawsuit, Steinberg v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., 663 F. Supp. 706 (S.D.N.Y. 1987), which held that Columbia Pictures violated the copyright Steinberg held on his work . </P> <P> On June 5, 2003, during the first term of George W. Bush's presidency, Ted Rall presented A View of the World from Pennsylvania Avenue as a parody of View of the World from 9th Avenue in a Universal Press Syndicate editorial cartoon . He replaced the letters representing The New Yorker with The Bushie . </P> <P> The cover was later satirized by Barry Blitt for the cover of The New Yorker on October 6, 2008 . The cover featured Sarah Palin looking out of her window seeing only Alaska, with Russia in the far background . </P>

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