The Fairey tale continues: Artist sues AP

By GottaLaff

Lawsuit v. Lawsuit:

An artist whose poster of Barack Obama became an iconic image of the 2008 presidential campaign filed a lawsuit against the US news agency the Associated Press (AP) on Monday.

Los Angeles artist Shepard Fairey and his Obey Giant Art Inc. claimed in the suit, filed in US District Court in Manhattan, that his use of an AP photograph to create the poster was not a violation of copyright law.

In his suit, Fairey acknowledged using an AP photograph of Obama from April 2006 to create the poster of Obama tinted in red, white and blue and staring into the sky above the word "HOPE."

But Fairey's lawyers said the artist had created an "image that creates powerful new meaning and conveys a radically different message that has no analogue in the original photograph."

I believe in Faireys.