Fairey sues
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- sikma0
so the word "obey" is off limits?
- JG_LB0
gay
- ian0
I quite like this comment:
This discussion is the difference between copying and deriving. Fairey derived his Obama image from an original photograph. It is in terms of artistic usage, drastically different from the original...no longer a photograph.
Werner copied Fairey's use of the word OBEY. Anyone who knows anything about art knows this word is trademarked by Fairey and is a part of his brand. As much as the target symbol and the swoosh...it is his "mark". Werner most likely used it thinking he'd get away with it or get some publicity out of it....which seems to be working.
Oh fuck right off, you cock.
- But that is incorrect, the word OBEY is copyrighted by Sprite/ Coca Cola.Meeklo
- Orbit0
If this is true then Fairey has become a total cock. I suspect he was always a total cock anyway because he has a pure punch-me face, but now he's an ubercock and I pray to god AP sue him into a fucking toilet hole.
Has he no fucking shame at all? Everything he does is an appropriation of someone else's talent and craft and now he's suing some kind for using the word Obey?
Shameful.
- kuntmagnificent_ruin
- +1bukka
- < yea what he said.
*shakes fist in airsofakingbanned
- airey0
there's also the issue that fairey 'derived' his 'obey' term from John Carpenter's 'They Live' where the term 'Obey', 'Consume' and 'Sleep'. So the question is that if he has admitted that this is the fact, how can he claim ownership?
- dbloc0
what a fairey
- Orbit0
As soon as I can draw it and print it, I am going to be selling an art print on my site that says OBEY prominently on it. It will be a limited edition print, no more than 100,000 will be produced. It will not be a rip of Fairey though becuase my work is original, not baed on a scan from a graphic design anthology hardback.
Fucking cunt.
- magnificent_ruin0
I invented gfy, btw
- airey0
- i remember it to be a cool moviejimbojones
- one of my favs
airey
- marychain0
If true...this makes him the biggest dick
and I defend the guy
but if he's going to walk on the edge...he better sure as shit STFU when somebody else does.
- jimbojones0
all the people who posted OBEY here are in a big trouble now. oh crap!
- morilla0
What a total fuck. He has been stealing his whole career, now this?
- Melanie0
Shep rips people for art. Dude was ripping Shep for cash.
I have to defend my copyright all the time and I know people think I'm an ass for it, but you have to do what you have to do.- assjimbojones
- you don't think Shephard the fairey boy hasn't made a large chunk of change himself?Amicus
- Maybe but it wasn't a direct rip. He uses images as reference to create art.
Melanie - he directly rips, its a proven fact.morilla
- Oh Bollocks Melanie, or should I call you Shep, you are talking total shit.Orbit
- I going to have to go ahead and disagree with you here Melanie.ian
- youre just fucking retarded, Melanie.iCanHazQBN
- Fuck you candy!rounce
- morilla0
fuck his cash, he got it from stealing.
Maybe I should go copyright "sleep", "eat", or "breathe". good luck with that one shep.
- Amicus0
That's it... can we start an Obey Dwarf tee and sticker line.