Posted on 08/06/2009 2:54:39 PM PDT by Baladas
(Aug. 6) -- With buzz about the Obama Joker poster still in the air, another reworking of the president's image is causing a stir.
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws has produced a psychedelic, '60s-style poster featuring a photo of college freshman "Barry" Obama smoking. Above his super-bad Panama hat is the slogan: Yes We Cannabis.
Artist Sonia Sanchez created the poster for NORML's annual conference using a picture taken at Occidental College in 1980 by the future president's classmate Lisa Jack. In the original photo, Obama is holding a real cigarette to his lips. Sanchez tweaked the smoking material to fit her theme, but otherwise the image is unchanged.
The pro-pot group never sought Jack's permission, even though it is selling the poster as well as giving it away to conference-goers, NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre acknowledged in an interview with The Washington Post.
Jack told the Post she's "very irritated" and does not want her work, which is on display at a Los Angeles gallery, used in this way.
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Blue haze was in my eyes...
I love it when Liberals attack Liberals.
Relax Jack, and spark one up with the NORML dudes.
Best guitar album ever, even if just for it’s impact on guitarists. I was given a promo copy. Had never heard of the guy. I played side one all day. Didn’t get to side two until the next day! My reaction was, “So we’re allowed to do this?”
Yes We Cocaine
Aren’t the pot smokers angry at Obama yet? Wasn’t he going to legalize pot?
Michelle is my heroin.
I would tend to agree with the photographer. Obama may be a politician and therefore fair game for satire and parody, but that doesn’t give someone the right to profit from the image she created. Unlike the joker poster, which uses a standard Obama image which is exactly like six billion other Obama images, the cannabis poster uses a picture which is totally unique—one which we would not have if Lisa Jack had not been there to take the picture. She did not forfeit her copyright when Obama became President.
LMAO.....gotta steal that one.
Dude... wha... you bogart the chips man?
way harsh...
Jack don't know jack!
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