Can I point out
Feb. 5th, 2009 01:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fingertroubleThe ridiculousness of the AP going after Shephard Fairey for the Obama poster?
I mean I can't imagine Alberto Korda going after those who used the Che image? Ultimately although bootlegged as with the Obama poster, it benefited the cause. And Shephard Fairey redrew the image, cropped it and turned it into that poster, and didn't hide where he got it from, and didn't profit from it at all.
Love to know what Manny Garcia thinks - surely he's not such a AP staffer - probably a freelancer - that he thinks that such a historically important cultural object and poster gets the kind of litigation that Mr Korda would've balked at (well he couldn't actually sue until recently because Cuba wasn't a Berne convention signatory, but he's gone on record saying "I am not averse to its reproduction by those who wish to propagate his memory and the cause of social justice throughout the world" and only being against the commercial use of the image).
It's all very silly.
I mean I can't imagine Alberto Korda going after those who used the Che image? Ultimately although bootlegged as with the Obama poster, it benefited the cause. And Shephard Fairey redrew the image, cropped it and turned it into that poster, and didn't hide where he got it from, and didn't profit from it at all.
Love to know what Manny Garcia thinks - surely he's not such a AP staffer - probably a freelancer - that he thinks that such a historically important cultural object and poster gets the kind of litigation that Mr Korda would've balked at (well he couldn't actually sue until recently because Cuba wasn't a Berne convention signatory, but he's gone on record saying "I am not averse to its reproduction by those who wish to propagate his memory and the cause of social justice throughout the world" and only being against the commercial use of the image).
It's all very silly.