Posted on 10/16/2009 10:41:22 PM PDT by woofie
In a strange twist to an already complicated legal situation, artist Shepard Fairey admitted today to legal wrongdoing in his ongoing battle with the Associated Press.
Fairey said in a statement issued late Friday that he knowingly submitted false images and deleted others in the legal proceedings, in an attempt to conceal the fact that the AP had correctly identified the photo that Fairey had used as a reference for his "Hope" poster of then-Sen. Barack Obama.
"Throughout the case, there has been a question as to which Mannie Garcia photo I used as a reference to design the HOPE image," Fairey said. "The AP claimed it was one photo, and I claimed it was another."
New filings to the court, he said, "state for the record that the AP is correct about which photo I used...and that I was mistaken. While I initially believed that the photo I referenced was a different one, I discovered early on in the case that I was wrong. In an attempt to conceal my mistake I submitted false images and deleted other images."
In February, the AP claimed that Fairey violated copyright laws when he used one of their images as the basis for the poster. In response, the artist filed a lawsuit against the AP, claiming that he was protected under fair use. Fairey also claimed that he used a different photo as the inspiration for his poster.
After Fairey's admission, a spokesman for the Associated Press issued a statement saying that Fairey "sued the AP under false pretenses by lying about which AP photograph he used."
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I like this comment :
I supported socialism and all I got was this lousy lawsuit.
-Useful Idiot, Shepard Fairey
Posted by: Phil | October 16, 2009 at 08:43 PM
A liar lied to liars about a picture he made of a liar taken from a photo the liars had of the liar?
Is no one that has anything to do with Obama honest?
How many liars could a wood chuck chuck?
Ah, the good old “mistake” defense.
Did someone ping me?
I thought this article was about Shepard Smith.
Bush made him do it
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