Shepard Fairey Controversy
Shepard Fairey Controversy
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I think this shows how the "copyright" racket actually works though. For a while Fairey was the hot new kid on the block, and the objections of people who said he ripped their work were kind of tossed to the side, because he was rich/successful enough to not care. You could make an argument that he was sampling/ appropriating/ etc but there's no doubt that what he did was technically "illegal" in some instances.
Then he made the mistake of messing with a dog bigger than himself, and now you see the result. But that doesn't make it any more right that the AP can bring Shepard to his knees with a lawsuit than it was that he could make a living and become famous off the works of others.