Artist Shepard Fairey based his Barack Obama poster (right) on a 2006 photograph taken for the Associated Press by Manny Garcia. (Left: Manny Garcia / AP / File; Right: Shepard Fairey)
The image used in his art , Fairey has acknowledged, is based on an Associated Press photograph, taken in April 2006 by Manny Garcia at the National Press Club in Washington.
The AP says it owns the copyright and wants credit and compensation. Fairey disagrees.
Via (Boston Globe)
FIGHT! Associated Press v Shepard Fairey
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