From a story on Breitbart (here): The AP says it owns the copyright, and wants credit and compensation. Fairey disagrees. “The Associated Press has determined that the photograph used in the poster is an AP photo and that its use required permission,” the AP’s director of media relations,…
Top Stories for the Week of Feb. 2 - 6, 2009 The guy who did the Obama poster is being sued for copyright infringement. That's right, the AP, whose staffer Manny Garcia shot the pre-posterized photo, has sued Shepard Fairey, who made it an icon. Who knew Fairey had a history of copyright…
On buttons, posters and Web sites, the image was everywhere during last year's presidential campaign: A pensive Barack Obama looking upward, as if……is based on an Associated Press photograph, taken in April 2006 by Manny Garcia on assignment for the AP at the National Press Club in…
Filed under: Celebrities, Kids and Parenting, Movies, TV and BooksI have two small children and because of this, I am familiar with Disney's animated show, Handy Manny (as well as the rest of the Playhouse Disney lineup). Manny Garcia (a.k.a. Handy Manny) is voiced by Wilmer Valderrama from That…
Not long ago on Boing Boing Video, we ran an episode with Shepard Fairey in which the artist explained how the iconic Obama poster came to be --……for having hand-drawn the image in part from a photo taken by AP photog Manny Garcia. Discussing the case with Sean Bonner over at LA…
a. If you looked up "pandering" in the dictionary. b. Desperate days in the legacy hunt? c. Laura gets World AIDS Day mixed up with……politics, visit BAGnewsNotes.com (and BAGnewsNotes @Twitter). (image 1: Manny Garcia/Getty. image 2: Jason Reed/Reuters. Washington…
He may be our President, but you can’t escape Shepard Fairey's (Juxtapoz cover #82) iconic Obama HOPE poster imagery just yet. In fact, this……file photo of then-Senator Barack Obama by Associated Press photographer Manny Garcia at the National Press Club in Washington. However,…
Manny Garcia is making a legal move stating that he is the rightful owner of the Obama “Hope” image adding another twist in this already interesting he said/ they said saga… (image via recording industry vs people) Read More… Source: A Photo Editor via ImagingInsider.com
Updated: July 15, 2009, 10:39 AM /It may be easier to ask forgiveness than to get permission, as……Shepard Fairey finds himself in.Fairey is being sued by the Associated Press and photographer Manny Garcia for using a published AP photograph of President Obama to create the iconic…