PDNonline.com, the New York Times, and NPR's Fresh Air feature stories on the continuing legal storm surrounding Shepard Fairey's famed "HOPE" poster featuring Barack Obama. The AP, photographer Mannie Garcia, and Fairey's attorneys are swimming in a legal soup of plagiarism, copyright infringement, and permissions. And an interesting analysis of Fairey's work can be found on Mark Vallen's Art for a Change website. Fairey has created a lucrative brand for himself - one that many people believe in. Does anyone else find it ironic that this anti-establishment artist has become a corporation himself?
Wow.
ReplyDeleteThe 'Art for Change' link really shines light on Fairey's work. I had no idea how much intellectual property he blatenly borrowed from other artists to make his art. wow.
That's a lot of different work he stole from. I'm surprised he got as famous as he did without word of this spreading sooner.
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