Photo Rights Fight

Barack Obama Associated Press A familiar poster of President Barack Obama is at the center of a copyright fight.
by Associated Press
Published: Thu, February 05, 2009 - 5:37 am CST Last Updated: Thu, February 05, 2009 - 5:53 am CST
NEW YORK (AP) - On buttons, posters and Web sites, the image was everywhere during last year's presidential campaign: A pensive
Barack Obama looking upward, as if to the future, splashed in a Warholesque red, white and blue and underlined with the caption
HOPE.

Designed by Shepard Fairey, a Los-Angeles based street artist, the image has led to sales of hundreds of thousands of posters and
stickers, has become so much in demand that copies signed by Fairey have been purchased for thousands of dollars on eBay.

The image, Fairey has acknowledged, is based on an Associated Press photograph, taken in April 2006 by Manny Garcia at the
National Press Club in Washington.

The AP says it owns the copyright, and wants credit and compensation. Fairey disagrees.
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David Rencher
David Rencher Says:
Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 10:48 am

Interesting,
I have had people do Oil Paintings from some of my photos. That is not something i would really complain about.

I also did a derivative work based on Shepard Fairey’s Obama Poster. I did get permission from Shepard before hand.

http://www.lumis.com/page/obama_newspaper_frontpages_mosaic/

DEW26M
DEW26M Says:
Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 8:08 am

Wow with a poster of him currently going for $880 US, you’d never think we were at an economic low! He’s not even dead yet, and his poster is already worth money!
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