Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Artist admits he lied about 'Hope' photo
NY Post ^ | October 17, 2009 | AP

Posted on 10/18/2009 4:06:18 AM PDT by Scanian

Shepard Fairey’s claim that he had the right to use a news photo to create his famous Barack Obama “HOPE” poster became a widely watched court case about fair use that now appears to have nearly collapsed.

By Friday night, his attorneys — led by Anthony Falzone, executive director of the Fair Use Project at Stanford University — said they intend to withdraw from the case and said the artist had misled them by fabricating information and destroying other material.

Fairey himself admitted that he didn’t use The Associated Press photo of Obama seated next to actor George Clooney he originally said his work was based on — which he claimed would have been covered under “fair use,” the legal claim that copyrighted work can be used without having to pay for it.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ap; fairey; fairuse; obama; shepardfairey
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-22 next last

1 posted on 10/18/2009 4:06:19 AM PDT by Scanian
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Scanian

Awwwww . . . what’s the matter, AP? Got a problem with someone helping themselves to the produce of your labor? It’s just a little wealth redistribution to what would be a poor, starving artist.


2 posted on 10/18/2009 4:15:55 AM PDT by Bluebird Singing
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Scanian

Oddly enough the nitty gritty of this story has been getting good coverage from TechCrucnh, and apparently the Noted Intellectual Property Thief Shepherd Fairey sent that blog a little mea culpa on Friday:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/16/shepard-fairey-responds-to-the-ap-yes-i-lied-but-it-was-still-fair-use/

“The AP claimed it was one photo, and I claimed it was another. The new filings state for the record that the AP is correct about which photo I used as a reference 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.”


3 posted on 10/18/2009 4:22:00 AM PDT by angkor (The U.S. Congress is at war with America.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Bluebird Singing

“Awwwww . . . what’s the matter, AP? Got a problem with someone helping themselves to the produce of your labor? It’s just a little wealth redistribution to what would be a poor, starving artist.”

Actually I would have thought Fairey had an open and shut case under “fair use”. The image was “political speech”, and did Fairey even profit from it?

I admit I haven’t followed the story too closely...


4 posted on 10/18/2009 4:22:51 AM PDT by PreciousLiberty
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Bluebird Singing; Scanian

There are no heroes here. Shepherd Fairey is a known Intellectual Property Thief in the art world.


5 posted on 10/18/2009 4:23:22 AM PDT by angkor (The U.S. Congress is at war with America.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Scanian

Like everything else associated with this administration, it is based on lies!


6 posted on 10/18/2009 4:27:24 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("Don't fire unless fired upon, but it they mean to have a war, let it begin here." J Parker, 1775)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: angkor

Please excuse my sorry attempt at sarcasm in the Age of Obama. I believe AP is correct in going after him.


7 posted on 10/18/2009 4:36:51 AM PDT by Bluebird Singing
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Scanian

He’s a Democrat. Of course he lied.


8 posted on 10/18/2009 4:43:53 AM PDT by vladimir998
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Scanian

Gee, imagine that,...a lying, smug, self-righteous, leftist, “liberal” fascist thug lying about “the end justifying the means”.

I’m surprised, are you?

I’m willing to bet that not many Freepers are.

There are two groups of people trying to destroy freedom, America and Western civilization, the left and Islam.

It’s world war 3 right here, right now folks.


9 posted on 10/18/2009 4:44:13 AM PDT by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now, courtesy of Islam.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Redleg Duke
Not to mention the little twit Yosi Sergant, the former white House staffer who worked for Obozo confidante Valerie Jarrett, who also hired Van Jones.

Sergant was the "communications director" at the NEA, who was forced to resign a few weeks ago due to his ethical infractions.

He's not only a "Home Boy" of of Obozo (as it says on his t-shirt), but also a big promoter of Noted Intellectual Property Thief Shepherd Fairey, and in fact it was the recently-fired Sergant who promoted the "Hope" image stolen by Fairey, and which is the direct subject of the AP lawsuit.

The President of the United States has collected quite an impressive crew of nuts, commies, domestic terrorists, liars, and thieves in his circle.

Mcdonald, Seven (September 10, 2008). "Yosi Sergant and the Art of Change: The Publicist Behind Shepard Fairey's Obama Hope Posters". Village Voice Media (LA Weekly).

http://www.laweekly.com/2008-09-11/columns/yosi-sergant-and-the-art-of-change-the-publicist-behind-shepard-fairey-39-s-obama-hope-posters/

10 posted on 10/18/2009 4:46:12 AM PDT by angkor (The U.S. Congress is at war with America.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Scanian

Fairy....seems fitting for an obozo supporter of homosexual marriage.


11 posted on 10/18/2009 4:46:29 AM PDT by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Scanian

Everything associated with Barack Hussein Sotero is an absolute lie.


12 posted on 10/18/2009 4:49:05 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Scanian

It was all to help elect the Great BO. In the end, does it really, really, really matter?


13 posted on 10/18/2009 4:58:53 AM PDT by Reagan69 (The only thing SHOVEL-READY since BO's stimulus has been MICHAEL JACKSON (tammy bruce))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Scanian

zer0 lied about hope, the artist lied about hope. The whole thing is a scam


14 posted on 10/18/2009 5:48:14 AM PDT by reefdiver (So how's that HOPE & CHANGE working out for ya ?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Scanian

You mean a liberal lied? Who’d a thunk it?


15 posted on 10/18/2009 6:08:28 AM PDT by caver (Obama's first goals: allow more killing of innocents and allow the killers of innocents to go free.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: angkor

He didn’t need that rainbow on his jacket to convince me what he is.


16 posted on 10/18/2009 6:10:24 AM PDT by caver (Obama's first goals: allow more killing of innocents and allow the killers of innocents to go free.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: Scanian

I bet he won’t get a refund from the Ward Churchill School of Art either...


17 posted on 10/18/2009 6:12:20 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: All

You know, as little as I like or respect anyone involved in this entire thing. I think he changed Way more than enough to call it an original. he dropped some facial features, changed the shape of shadows. I am fairly certain that if you overlayed the two images they wouldn’t be a dead on tracing of most of it.
Credit for the photographers reference material should be given obviously.

That being said as an amateur artist, and a conservative,,,I hope they make him a little uncomfortable :)


18 posted on 10/18/2009 6:54:12 AM PDT by uncle fenders
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Bluebird Singing

LOL...I got it! I thought it was pretty evident, and biting, too!


19 posted on 10/18/2009 6:57:46 AM PDT by rlmorel (Obama, The Flatulence of One Thousand Black Dogs After Eating Boiled Eggs Be Upon Him...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Bluebird Singing

Yeah...shame, shame. Against a “Mr. Fairey, too?” Sounds kinda homophobic to me.


20 posted on 10/18/2009 7:02:39 AM PDT by Scanian
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-22 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson