AP Sues Shepard Fairey
Add another one to the annals of recent countercultural moments: Yesterday the Associated Press pressed suit against Shepard Fairey, the street artist who designed the most iconic user generated art to come out of the 2008 election. The creator of the "Hope" poster--that now sits regally in the National Portrait Gallery--has come under fire by the news organization for using its 2006 Obama photo as the canvas for the art-ified image, without buying rights to it.
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