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I don't recall Campbell's Soup suing Andy Warhol. Sounds like George Zimmerman is winning this fight, despite April's scurrilous article. Oh, by-the-way April, Charles Manson and John Wayne Gacy were convicted of murder, unlike Mr. Zimmerman. Right?
1 posted on 01/26/2014 2:34:47 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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I don’t know Zimmerman’s character in detail, but on its own, that painting of the FL AG is pretty funny!


2 posted on 01/26/2014 2:37:35 PM PST by PGR88
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April is full of rage against a guy who defended himself from being killed by a violent criminal.

Yep, she’s a liberal.


3 posted on 01/26/2014 2:38:25 PM PST by TheDon (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out.)
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He’s got all the right people tee’d off. Funny to see the art critics with their panties in a bunch, those hypocrite pigs.

He’d better be careful with the copyright situation though.


7 posted on 01/26/2014 2:46:48 PM PST by Yardstick
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Dear April Dawn

You and the occupation media are both horrible and evil human beings. There will be a reckoning.

Detesting everything about your essence,

PA Engineer
8 posted on 01/26/2014 2:47:28 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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How many liberal artists over the years have painted variations of “Guerrillero Heroico” - that iconic painting from a photograph of Marxist Che Guevara? I don’t think any of them ever got sued but then again, they “appropriated” the art for liberal causes so I guess that’s different.


10 posted on 01/26/2014 2:51:28 PM PST by SamAdams76
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Hillary continues to be a great American……………………..huh?


11 posted on 01/26/2014 2:51:46 PM PST by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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This whole story was a COMPLETE non-starter but for the politically-driven LibTards in FL.

Let’s look at some Police Blotters for, oh, ANY day of the year, and I’ll bet you’ll find a similar situation playing out in SOME ‘gated community.’

Thanks, Media! Thanks ‘April Dawn.’ Pretty sure they will not REST until this man is dead, too. Like a dog on a bone, they are! *SPIT*


14 posted on 01/26/2014 2:53:13 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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I believe the first picture George did was also from another source.


16 posted on 01/26/2014 2:54:48 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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April, being ignorant and stupid is a bad way to slog through life. But you deserve it. /spit


17 posted on 01/26/2014 2:55:06 PM PST by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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An art critic for the Village Voice, Christian Viveros-Faune, said Zimmerman’s work fits right in with other “murderabilia,”

Zimmerman should sue Christian Viveros-Faune for slander for this statement, and sue April Dawn for repeating it.

18 posted on 01/26/2014 2:55:20 PM PST by Hardastarboard (The question of our age is whether a majority of Americans can and will vote us all into slavery.)
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One thing for certain is that the msm vermin have a Palinesque hatred for George Zimmerman. So it’s impossible to tell what’s actually true about him.


20 posted on 01/26/2014 2:57:59 PM PST by rhinohunter (Freepers aren't booing -- they're shouting "Cruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuz")
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I have no idea who April Dawn is or what The Source is. Is she famous or something?
21 posted on 01/26/2014 2:58:28 PM PST by sockmonkey (Of Course I didn't read the article. After all, this is FreeRepublic..)
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All you have to do is call it a rendition. I have Picasso’s hanging all over my house. Since I can’t afford one I just copy it and have it framed. As long as you don’t advertise it as an original you should be OK.


22 posted on 01/26/2014 3:03:32 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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Okay, I googled her, and still don't know who she is, but I see she is a contributor to Vixen Magazine, of which I am not familiar.

From linkedin:
Her work is regularly featured in VIBE/VIBE Vixen Magazine, and The Source magazine.

25 posted on 01/26/2014 3:04:40 PM PST by sockmonkey (Of Course I didn't read the article. After all, this is FreeRepublic..)
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This is nonsense. One of the tests of whether you have violated a copyright is whether your production is "transformative." The Supreme Court defined two tests:

1. Has the material you have taken from the original work been transformed by adding new expression or meaning?

2. Was value added to the original by creating new information, new aesthetics, new insights, and understandings?

If it is parody - and this certainly is - then it is given broad latitude. And then there is the issue that Zimmerman is engaging in political speech which is the most hallowed of protected activities.

Like Warhol's Campbell Soup painting, Zimmerman's work is certainly transformative.

I won't enter the debate on artistic merit. It is irrelevant to the discussion at hand.

29 posted on 01/26/2014 3:16:36 PM PST by AndyJackson
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That is not a copy of their photo. Several things were changed. The cobalt blue curtains in the photo background, gone in his painting. The alizarin red dress, gone in painting, replaced with a yellow ocher, orange under painting, topped and textured with carmine red. The face is turned into a caricature due to the harsh and heavy rendering.

Let’s put it this way, even if Zim does have to pay for using that photo, in the end, it will become worth it. Now, the painting has been advertised for free around the world. Good for Zim. I do wonder, what are his relatives doing for income, can they now show their faces in public again? Shellie is likely shopping for a Victoria Secrets dress to wear when she tries to win Zim’s ‘love’ (I.e. income from paintings) back. Those don’t ususally come in her size though.


33 posted on 01/26/2014 3:27:37 PM PST by lee martell
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From Zimmermans' Tweet...

"Or... I could put out how much U offered me 2.."

I find that to be the most interesting part of this article.

34 posted on 01/26/2014 3:30:08 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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Help me out here, everybody . . . why doesn’t this fall under the lib exemption: “truth to power?”


43 posted on 01/26/2014 3:50:17 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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That prosecutor NEEDS MOCKING.

Nothing “horrible” about THAT!


50 posted on 01/26/2014 4:11:00 PM PST by G Larry
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I keep looking and looking, but I have yet to see the horrible part.


55 posted on 01/26/2014 4:26:18 PM PST by Ingtar (The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
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