Is it Live, or is it Memorex?
Feb. 11th, 2009 10:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gategrrlAnd in a continuation of the news about Shepart Fairey, the artist who used Mannie Garcia's photograph as the inspiration for his painting of Barak Obama that got wide distribution, he is suing AP *back*. "The lawsuit was brought on Fairey's behalf by the Stanford Law School's Fair Use Project and a San Francisco-based law firm."
AP, on the other hand, says it doesn't want any appropriation of its photographer's work. They want to protect the photographers. And of course, like a good little new bureau, they'll fork the money they win in court over to an AP family fund, for the families of AP reporters who are injured or killed while working for AP.
Historically, photographers have always been pooh-poohed by the regular art establishment, because (at least in the beginning) painters and sculptors looked at photography simply as a method of recording facts. This is the way a chair looked. This was the dead body of Lincoln. That was the way I set the still life up two years ago. That sort of thing.
I think what AP is really riled about is, unlike other campaigns, it wasn't a photograph that became the icon of the newest president. And the photographer's rights, of course. What they SHOULD be doing, is plastering the original image everywhere they can.
Here's the original photograph:
blog.pennlive.com/midstate_impact/2008/03/_479211629042006.jpg
And here's the poster!
AP, on the other hand, says it doesn't want any appropriation of its photographer's work. They want to protect the photographers. And of course, like a good little new bureau, they'll fork the money they win in court over to an AP family fund, for the families of AP reporters who are injured or killed while working for AP.
Historically, photographers have always been pooh-poohed by the regular art establishment, because (at least in the beginning) painters and sculptors looked at photography simply as a method of recording facts. This is the way a chair looked. This was the dead body of Lincoln. That was the way I set the still life up two years ago. That sort of thing.
I think what AP is really riled about is, unlike other campaigns, it wasn't a photograph that became the icon of the newest president. And the photographer's rights, of course. What they SHOULD be doing, is plastering the original image everywhere they can.
Here's the original photograph:
blog.pennlive.com/midstate_impact/2008/03/_479211629042006.jpg
And here's the poster!
