Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/12

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Subject: [Leica] AP suit against Shepard Fairey
From: lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin)
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:40:12 -0400
References: <mailman.270.1236873423.54786.lug@leica-users.org>
 
On Mar 12, 2009, at 11:57 AM, lug-request at leica-users.org wrote:

> The AP filed a countersuit against Shepard Fairey, the artist who
> ripped off an AP photo for his poster of Pres. Obama. Fairey claimed
> that his portrait was "fair use." The AP says it was plagerism. Read
> the details at:  http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/
> pr_031109.html
>
> Larry Z


There was a problem with the URL in the story about AP's suit against  
Shepard Fairey.

Try this one:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/11/ap-shepard-fairey-counter_n_173957.html


Larry Z