Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Fairey does not play fairly. He's toast. An insult to the business. You can't hit the POSTERIZE button in Photoshop and then call it your image. A shame because the image had meaning to a lot of people. I was on the subway with a gal coming back from DC with a big tube with that image in it. From the inauguration. Mark William Rabiner > From: Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at optonline.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:52:48 -0400 > To: <lug at leica-users.org> > Cc: Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at optonline.net> > Subject: Re: [Leica] AP countersuit > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information