Copyright suit over Shepard Fairey’s Obama image
Posted: February 9, 2009 Filed under: Copyright, Images, News Comments OffAnother recent NYTimes article of interest:
Artist Sues The A.P. Over Obama Image
“In a pre-emptive strike, the street artist Shepard Fairey filed a lawsuit on Monday against The Associated Press, asking a federal judge to declare that he is protected from copyright infringement claims in his use of a news photograph as the basis for a now ubiquitous campaign poster image of President Obama.”
