Back on February 24th:
Shepard Fairey, the street artist who created the iconic Barack Obama “Hope” poster, pleaded guilty today to a federal contempt charge stemming from civil litigation brought over the image’s creation.
Fairey admitted destroying electronic records and creating phony documents in a bid to thwart a copyright lawsuit brought by the Associated Press, which contended that Fairey had based the “Hope” image on a photo of Obama snapped by an AP lensman.
The 42-year-old artist had, in fact, used the AP image as the “reference photo” for the Obama artwork. But he generated the fake documents (and sought to delete other records) so that it would appear the “Hope” artwork was based on another 2006 image of Obama with the actor George Clooney.
By doing this, Fairey thought he could protect himself--not to mention his millions in profit from the “Hope” art--from the AP.
A fraud. Just like the man he pimped out to the American people. Would be nice - and just - if they got to share a jail cell together...
2 comments:
Whatever he did wrong has a price. I guess he is now blaming his self for doing it.
Nice post which Fairey admitted destroying electronic records and creating phony documents in a bid to thwart a copyright lawsuit brought by the Associated Press, which contended that Fairey had based the Hope image on a photo of Obama snapped by an AP lensman. But he generated the fake documents so that it would appear the Hope artwork was based on another 2006 image of Obama with the actor George Clooney. Thanks a lot.
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