Article: Artist admits using key AP photo for 'HOPE' poster

Article: Fairey tags AP in suit.(News)
The Boston Herald;  February 10, 2009 ;     648 words ... ... street scrawler Shepard Fairey yesterday slapped the ... the law when he used an AP photo to create the Warhol ... filed yesterday, says Fairey didn't violate the copyright ... Art. Asked about the AP's position, Fairey said: "It's a suppression ...

Article: AP countersues Fairey over Obama imagep.(News)
The Boston Herald;  March 12, 2009 ;     606 words ... ... presidential campaign. The AP's lawsuit, filed in ... court in Manhattan, says Fairey knowingly "misappropriated The AP's rights in that image ... asks the court to award AP profits and damages. Meanwhile, Fairey was arraigned on 12 new ...

Article: AP wants credit for Fairey's Obama image
The Boston Globe;  February 5, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Club in Washington. The AP says it owns the copyright ... credit and compensation. Fairey disagrees. "The Associated ... discussions about this with the AP." Fairey, in Boston for the opening ... part of the discussion AP is having with Mr. Fairey's representative ...

Article: Fairey's art of hypocrisy
The Boston Globe;  February 12, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... the copyright on the Obama photo by hauling the AP into court. And when some right-wing kook appropriated the Obama image that Fairey had appropriated from the AP, Fairey sicced his lawyers on him. When you have an exhibit ...

Article: Artist Shepard Fairey finds creativity outside the box
Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;  October 21, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... blue image. Days after Fairey acknowledged trying to ... legal battle with the AP, the news organization ... actor George Clooney. Fairey now says he used a solo ... shot of Obama, as the AP long had alleged. Fairey sued the not-for-profit ...

Article: Associated Press Defends Lawsuit Brought by Shepard Fairey ...
Business Wire;  March 11, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... that it was permissible for Fairey to use an AP photo of President Obama without ... on, the [AP photo]." AP asserts that Fairey's unauthorized use of its ... content is fundamental to [AP's] existence." If Fairey were to succeed in his suit ...

Article: Stanford Law School's Fair Use Project and Durie Tangri File ...
Business Wire;  February 9, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Barack Obama. Last week, the AP accused Fairey of infringing copyrights it says ... assertion of copyrights by the AP against Fairey or anyone else who displays his ... taken by Mannie Garcia, the AP contacted Fairey's production studio, asserting ...