Obamapolooza!!!

Shepard Fairey, the artist who painted a portrait of President Obama based on an AP photograph is now being sued by the press agency.
They are suing himi for copyright infringement.
The AP says it owns the copyright, and wants credit and compensation. Fairey disagrees.
“The Associated Press has determined that the photograph used in the poster is an AP photo and that its use required permission,” the AP’s director of media relations, Paul Colford, said.
“AP safeguards its assets and looks at these events on a case-by-case basis. We have reached out to Mr. Fairey’s attorney and are in discussions. We hope for an amicable solution.”
“We believe fair use protects Shepard’s right to do what he did here,” says Fairey’s attorney, Anthony Falzone, executive director of the Fair Use Project at Stanford University and a lecturer at the Stanford Law School. “It wouldn’t be appropriate to comment beyond that at this time because we are in discussions about this with the AP.”
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I like how they took their time to file the suit. His artwork has been in circulation for months and all of a sudden it’s a problem. Rediculous.

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