Posted on 02/05/2009 2:13:45 PM PST by BGHater
NEW YORK - ON buttons, posters and websites, 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, Mr Fairey has acknowledged, is based on an Associated Press photograph, taken in April 2006 by Manny Garcia at the National Press Club in Washington.
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I wonder if some of the people whose speeches were plagiarized by Obama can claim part of the presidency...
White Guy: Is He Having A Problem?
Black Guy: Don't Know. I Saw Him Do It In Front Of Soros.
White Guy: How High Did He Rise Up?
Black Guy: Bumped His Head On The Ceiling!
Man, he has that nose-in-the-air thing down pretty well. It’s a poster-child expression for liberals.
Fair Use.
Bad art, but fair use.
>Fair Use.
>Bad art, but fair use.
Agreed. If you or I were to hand-draw or paint, etc. a picture, using some photo as a reference, the work is still all ours.
I love it when liberals are only able to fight with each other. It’s then almost certain that I can cheer for at least one to be the loser if not both.
Right up there with the Smilie Face ... public domain now ...
I’d say it depends. If I did a fairly faithful painting of Moonrise Over Albuquerque and sold it, I might owe something to the estate of Ansel Adams. It’s a quite unique photo that took a lot of creativity to make, and I would be just using my painting talent, but mostly his creativity.
But I can’t see owing for what is basically a mug shot that has been heavily re-done using the painter’s “talent.”
It’s a balance thing, no two cases are alike.
Sadly, the guy who originally drew the smiley face made almost no money off of it.
Right - heard about that; same also for the guy who designed the POW/MIA patch ....
PS - besides, who’d want to make a poster of The O for sale? It’s all over the Internet anyway .... maybe though it’ll be an icon like the Che poster ....
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