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ZOMG!!!11!!!!1 Shepard Fairey is a biter....

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  1. Kayone707

    Kayone707 Moderator

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    [Broken External Image]:http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/6999/obamaid1.jpg



    NEW YORK – On buttons, posters and Web sites, the image was everywhere during last year's presidential campaign: A pensive Barack Obama looking upward, as if to the future, splashed in a Warholesque red, white and blue and underlined with the caption HOPE.

    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.

    The image, Fairey has acknowledged, is based on an Associated Press photograph, taken in April 2006 by Manny Garcia on assignment for the AP at the National Press Club in Washington.

    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 in a statement.

    "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."

    Fair use is a legal concept that allows exceptions to copyright law, based on, among other factors, how much of the original is used, what the new work is used for and how the original is affected by the new work.

    A longtime rebel with a history of breaking rules, Fairey has said he found the photograph using Google Images. He released the image on his Web site shortly after he created it, in early 2008, and made thousands of posters for the street.

    As it caught on, supporters began downloading the image and distributing it at campaign events, while blogs and other Internet sites picked it up. Fairey has said that he did not receive any of the money raised.

    A former Obama campaign official said they were well aware of the image based on the picture taken by Garcia, a temporary hire no longer with the AP, but never licensed it or used it officially. The Obama official asked not to be identified because no one was authorized anymore to speak on behalf of the campaign.

    The image's fame did not end with the election.

    It will be included this month at a Fairey exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and a mixed-media stenciled collage version has been added to the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington.

    "The continued use of the poster, regardless of whether it is for galleries or other distribution, is part of the discussion AP is having with Mr. Fairey's representative," Colford said.

    A New York Times book on the election, just published by Penguin Group (USA), includes the image. A Vermont-based publisher, Chelsea Green, also used it — credited solely to Fairey_ as the cover for Robert Kuttner's "Obama's Challenge," an economic manifesto released in September. Chelsea Green president Margo Baldwin said that Fairey did not ask for money, only that the publisher make a donation to the National Endowment for the Arts.

    "It's a wonderful piece of art, but I wish he had been more careful about the licensing of it," said Baldwin, who added that Chelsea Green gave $2,500 to the NEA.

    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.

    Fairey has said that he first designed the image a year ago after he was encouraged by the Obama campaign to come up with some kind of artwork. Last spring, he showed a letter to The Washington Post that came from the candidate.

    "Dear Shepard," the letter reads. "I would like to thank you for using your talent in support of my campaign. The political messages involved in your work have encouraged Americans to believe they can help change the status quo. Your images have a profound effect on people, whether seen in a gallery or on a stop sign."

    At first, Obama's team just encouraged him to make an image, Fairey has said. But soon after he created it, a worker involved in the campaign asked if Fairey could make an image from a photo to which the campaign had rights.

    "I donated an image to them, which they used. It was the one that said "Change" underneath it. And then later on I did another one that said "Vote" underneath it, that had Obama smiling," he said in a December 2008 interview with an underground photography Web site.
     
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  2. vegimite on toast

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  3. LostYouth

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    thats not biting
    thats copyright infringment
    i read that article
     
  4. FuckDaFakes

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  5. Kayone707

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    ZOMG!!!!!1!!!!11 the first two posters are haters
     
  6. vegimite on toast

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  8. vegimite on toast

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  11. JETPACK!!

    JETPACK!! Banned

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    this guy isnt even a writer, never has been. a stencilin, wheat pastin art faggot with a tag.

    plus his name his shepard fairey. fuckin basehead parents..
     
  12. stevefrench

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    im stealing this comment from 12oz.

    "theres actually something called fair use in transfer of medium, where you can legally make paintings/prints/stencils/whatever of other peoples photos... same law that andy warholl beat campbells soup with"
     
  13. Slushi

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  14. computer rock

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    Not all artist are writers and yes even tho his name is shepard fairey he's known as obey to other artist..I think u need to learn sum respect and sum history because before obey it was bansky who was a writer turned stenciler..n I'm from LA n we got mad love for obey.
    Just cuz u dnt have the balls n skills to make huge obey giant wheat pastings n highly populated areas doesn't give u the right to b a hater
     
  15. B.S. POLICE

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    i see where jet is coming from, obey isnt a real writer in our terms and to be honest with you i didnt like him for the same reason, his become the "posterboy" for graffiti taht he doesent do. BUT you have to respect other mediums and ideas, and his had the same issues with cops that any of us had, the dude deserves respect even if hes gone mainstream
     
  16. JETPACK!!

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    oh yeah, i forgot how much balls it takes to draw a poster or cut out a stencil in the safety of your own home. then invest 5 minutes into pastin it on a wall. get outta here...

    and thanks for telling me what he used to write. the presidents campaign designer? the fuck is that? how can you call yourself a writer when you dont WRITE shit. drawing and writing are different things. a WRITER writes on walls. an "ARTIST" draws pictures and glues them to a wall

    thats just my opinion. im tired of the amount of lousy obey and banksy inspired stencils i see in my city. you know how many little girls/ballons/osama bin ladens/bush's/soilders and other wack political garbage i see on a daily basis? enough to make me dislike the people who inspired them to do that garbage.

    not hatin on banksy or obey, their doin their thing. my rants just to try an clear up the misconception of "writer" and "art fag who likes to vandilise"
     
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  17. Slushi

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    Originality is truely dead
     
  18. computer rock

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    So ur hating because he found a way to make money and provide for his family while still doding wat he loves to do?
    Revok has a website,saber gotta website,rime does his stuff in art galleries,cope does pieces for money,and augor move from la and also started making money.
    My point is that u can't stay a 16 year old badboy for ever.sooner or later ur gonna get 2 slow to out run,to old to climb and ur gonna need money to pay the rent.
    And I guess u only see the comercial obey stuff cuz wat we see out here is on a whole diff level.
    From the stickers everywhere to the wheat pastin on the side of the downtown skyscrapers.and obey has been arested like 13 times so he goes throw da same shit we go through
    N look up MICROBO,D*FACE,and the KAMIKAZE CREW,and that's not talent.n if u do dat means ur no better then the ppl who dnt consider graff as real art.
     
  19. Slushi

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    Are you reading the same thread?
     
  20. JETPACK!!

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    your honestly trying to compare obey to msk and cope? get the fuck outta here, hahahaha.

    read my post again, then yours.