Saturday, February 28, 2009

Inspiration or Infringement?


if you havent listened to it yet, there was a good interview with Shepard Fairey about appropriation on NPR last Thursday, Shepard sued the AP in a pre-emptive suit on "fair use" of the original photograph by Mannie Garcia of Barack Obama for the (in)famous "HOPE" posters,,,
listen here:
Shepard Fairey interview
Photographer Mannie Garcia interview
Columbia University Law Professor weighs in on the issue

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