http://acandidworld.com/2009/02/05/contrary-to-the-associated-press-lawyers-shepard-faireys-iconic-obama-image-is-unequivocally-fair-use/ Democracy in America Sun, 27 May 2012 05:50:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://acandidworld.com/2009/02/05/contrary-to-the-associated-press-lawyers-shepard-faireys-iconic-obama-image-is-unequivocally-fair-use/#comment-9200 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:28:52 +0000 http://www.acandidworld.net/?p=5375#comment-9200 Campaign posters are a legitimate us of licensed photographs, and thus the transformation ‘into an inspirational image’ is a non sequiter. He’s admitted selling 4,000 posters at $45 each which is $180,000, not to mention sales to magazines all over the world for covers and interior artwork. His use of it was commercial. Obama’s campaign didn’t use his original posters because the copyright was questionable. Fairey copied a photo and made a shedload of cash out of it. From the person who sued Baxter Orr for parodying his work, his refusal to pay a license fee to AP is hypocritical money grubbing.

]]> http://acandidworld.com/2009/02/05/contrary-to-the-associated-press-lawyers-shepard-faireys-iconic-obama-image-is-unequivocally-fair-use/#comment-9201 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:09:10 +0000 http://www.acandidworld.net/?p=5375#comment-9201 This may be covered in 2), but what about the originality of the source copyrighted material?
What if I were to photograph Obama at a different time and place but in a very similar pose to the one in the AP photo? Would that be in violation of the AP’s copyright? Particularly because Obama is a public figure, I do not see what rights the AP can possibly have concerning anything other than exact reproduction of their photograph.

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