Update: Fairey vs AP and What About Clooney?
February 10, 2009
This just in (via The Art Law Blog and Artnet):
Who knew that Obama was sitting next to George Clooney and that it would become a subject of debate? You can read Shepard Fairey’s complaint against the AP here. According to Charlie Finch, Jim Danziger of Danziger Projects (who is currently exhibiting a complete set of Fairey’s Obama prints) might have started the whole thing.
UPDATE: View The Colbert Report’s take on the controversy here.
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