What’s Your Take On This?
So Shepard Fairey, the well known street artist notorious for his OBEY posters and most recently his Obama poster is in some hot water and I’m wondering what your take is on the situation. In case you haven’t heard about this here’s the down low: The Associated Press is suing Shepard for basing his drawing on a shot taken by one of their photographers and he’s not denying it. However there’s a little thing called Fair Use, which is a legal term that basically means that an image can be used without permission if it is significantly altered.
It sounds like money grubbing on the part of the Associated Press to me, considering Shepard Fairey donated all his profits . Can’t we all just be happy that these posters ended up being the visual image of Obama’s campaign? They caught the eye of all those American youngsters resulting in more voters.
You don’t see Shepard Fairey suing Jack Dylan for his Fairey-Obama inspired POP Montreal posters now do you?
I say chill out Associate Press, don’t be haters just because your photograph wasn’t as popular as the resulting posters. What do you think?
Filed under artists, illustration, street art | Tags: dylan, jack, obama, posters, shepard fairey | Comments (9)POSTRS!
The aptly named show, POSTRS!, is a collection of Tyler Rauman’s Montreal show posters from 2007 and 2008. He’ll be presenting his art prints at Cafe Zigoto this Friday with the help from some musical friends.
Friday January 23rd 7pm
Le Zigoto 5731 Ave du Parc
Performing the evening of the event will be
TUNEYARDS
Adam and the Amethysts (solo set)
Mussaver
and possibly more
