The street artist Shepard Fairey has filed a lawsuit against The Associated Press, asking a judge to declare that he is protected from copyright infringement claims in his use of a news photograph as the basis for a now ubiquitous image of President Barack ObamaRead about it here.
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Lawsuits all over the place