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A Alleges Copyright Infringement of Obama Image
AP ^ | Feb. 4, 2009 | AP

Posted on 02/04/2009 3:40:26 PM PST by Netizen

AP suing Shepard Fairey over altered image. See article.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: ap; associatedpress; communism; communist; copyright; fairey; fairuse; images; marxism; marxist; obama; obamatruthfile; shepardfairey; socialism; socialist
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Thought this might be of interest since a lot of us alter images.
1 posted on 02/04/2009 3:40:26 PM PST by Netizen
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To: Netizen

No, because Mr. Fairy sold it.


2 posted on 02/04/2009 3:43:32 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Who is now in charge of the "Office of the President-Elect"?)
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To: Netizen

Shepard Fairey will never work again.


3 posted on 02/04/2009 3:43:46 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
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To: Netizen
Two quotes to pinpoint the issue here:
Designed by Shepard Fairey, a Los-Angeles based street artist, the image has led to sales of hundreds of thousands of posters and stickers, has become so much in demand that copies signed by Fairey have been purchased for thousands of dollars on eBay.

"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."

Translation: "We just want our cut of the $."

4 posted on 02/04/2009 3:45:35 PM PST by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: Netizen
I like this one better than both the originals I used.

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5 posted on 02/04/2009 3:47:00 PM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: Netizen

6 posted on 02/04/2009 3:47:31 PM PST by Tarpon (America's first principles, freedom, liberty, market economy and self-reliance will never fail.)
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To: The_Victor

Ahh - I always took that poster as a mock communist poster. It certainly follows the style of the Soviet propaganda posters.


7 posted on 02/04/2009 3:48:09 PM PST by Ingtar (Americans have truly let America down. A sad day.)
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To: ConservativeMind

I had been wondering when a case like this would come up. It will be interesting to see what transpires.


8 posted on 02/04/2009 3:53:28 PM PST by Netizen
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To: The_Victor
Translation: "We just want our cut of the $."

My thoughts exactly.

9 posted on 02/04/2009 3:54:04 PM PST by Netizen
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To: The_Victor

This is why AP was so upset when Obama didn’t allow AP photogs into the Oval Office at one point, and instead released pics taken by a White House staff photographer (which, of course, would be in public domain).


10 posted on 02/04/2009 3:56:46 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (We used to institutionalize the insane. Now we elect them.)
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To: The_Victor

Maybe the AP should talk to to Obama about restitution.

From the article:

Fairey also used the AP photograph for an image designed specially for the Obama inaugural committee, which charged anywhere from $100 for a poster to $500 for a poster signed by the artist.


11 posted on 02/04/2009 4:01:23 PM PST by Netizen
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To: The_Victor

Yep, $$s talk.


12 posted on 02/04/2009 4:01:35 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: PapaBear3625
This is why AP was so upset when Obama didn’t allow AP photogs into the Oval Office at one point, and instead released pics taken by a White House staff photographer (which, of course, would be in public domain).

Wow that didn't take long.

Present Obama did something right!

Ouch, it hurts to say that...

But giving the finger to the AP instead of prominate republicans is a move in the right direction.

13 posted on 02/04/2009 4:30:00 PM PST by Syncro (Ti Ming -- Use Librally)
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To: Netizen
They are going to be busy.

Where to start with fair use when a parody is parodied and then is made a parody of etc?

14 posted on 02/04/2009 4:39:37 PM PST by Syncro (Ti Ming -- Use Librally)
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To: Netizen
For the moment, satire is still fair use. But maybe not for long...


15 posted on 02/04/2009 4:43:34 PM PST by paulycy ("BEWARE the LIBERAL/MEDIA Complex")
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16 posted on 02/04/2009 4:45:51 PM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Netizen

17 posted on 02/04/2009 4:50:01 PM PST by Cyberrat (Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither.)
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To: BerryDingle

Say what ...


18 posted on 02/04/2009 4:52:41 PM PST by Tarpon (America's first principles, freedom, liberty, market economy and self-reliance will never fail.)
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To: Netizen
I both do Photoshop goofs and run a photography business. I kinda have to come down with AP on this one.

Obama doesn't have a dog in the hunt. As President, he's public domain. However, AP routinely copyrights all their images. If Fairey had taken his own picture of Obama, or gotten rights to use Obama's image from AP, the issue is settled. However, a specific photographer took a specific picture of Obama and this work was used as a basis for Fairey's work. He also made a lot of money off of it. The fact is the AP photographer had as much to do with the success of the image as Fairey did, since Fairey's contribution could be recreated in Photoshop in twenty or thirty minutes.

Probably Fairey had never been big enough to attract anyone's attention before, but he is now. Fair use goes out the window when you begin selling the product for mass reproduction.

19 posted on 02/04/2009 5:00:32 PM PST by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: Netizen
novemberfoolschangesucks2

20 posted on 02/04/2009 5:28:29 PM PST by Nateman (President - id = present Obama)
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