Posts Tagged ‘arrested’
By Emily Waldorf Street-artist Shepard Fairey filed a pre-emptive lawsuit against The Associated Press, requesting that he be protected from copyright infringement in his use of a news photograph as the starting point for his famous poster of President Obama. The photograph was taken by freelance photographer Mannie Garcia, who, to complicate matters even further, […]
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