Obama "Hope" Artist is admits to being a liar in legal case

[I can't think of a name]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/10/shepard-fairey-admits-to-wrongdoing-in-associated-press-lawsuit.html

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In a strange twist to an already complicated legal situation, artist Shepard Fairey admitted today to legal wrongdoing in his ongoing battle with the Associated Press.
Fairey said in a statement issued late Friday that he knowingly submitted false images and deleted others in the legal proceedings, in an attempt to conceal the fact that the AP had correctly identified the photo that Fairey had used as a reference for his "Hope" poster of then-Sen. Barack Obama.
"Throughout the case, there has been a question as to which Mannie Garcia photo I used as a reference to design the HOPE image," Fairey said. "The AP claimed it was one photo, and I claimed it was another."
New filings to the court, he said, "state for the record that the AP is correct about which photo I used...and that I was mistaken. While I initially believed that the photo I referenced was a different one, I discovered early on in the case that I was wrong. In an attempt to conceal my mistake I submitted false images and deleted other
images."

Very smart, when the AP showed the original image everyone could tell where he took it from.

[usm2b]

You're not moving to VA for 6mo are you???

[Derbedeu]

Eh. Though they're correct in this case, I don't have much sympathy for the AP. They've really gone overboard with the whole copyright thing:

http://techdirt.com/articles/20080613/0117561394.shtml

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/16/heres-our-new-policy-on-ap-stories-theyre-banned/

Personally, the policy they're pursuing doesn't make much sense to me.

[I can't think of a name]

You're not moving to VA for 6mo are you???

Need to change that, 6 mos are over.

[Zoomie]

Eh. Though they're correct in this case, I don't have much sympathy for the AP. They've really gone overboard with the whole copyright thing:

http://techdirt.com/articles/20080613/0117561394.shtml

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/16/heres-our-new-policy-on-ap-stories-theyre-banned/

Personally, the policy they're pursuing doesn't make much sense to me.
They have gone bonkers with the copyright for their stories, but this case is clear cut. Fairey took their image without permission or licensing it, and profited off of it.