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Shepard Fairey admits to stealing AP photo.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 17th, 2009 at 01:43 PM  | 

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It makes you wonder what the AP has, to make this admission by HOPE-and-paste ripoff artist Shepard Fairey look like the preferable option:

In a strange twist to an already complicated legal situation, artist Shepard Fairey admitted today to legal wrongdoing in his ongoing battle with the Associated Press.

Fairey said in a statement issued late Friday that he knowingly submitted false images and deleted others in the legal proceedings, in an attempt to conceal the fact that the AP had correctly identified the photo that Fairey had used as a reference for his “Hope” poster of then-Sen. Barack Obama.

Via Deceiver.com, which also links to this report that at least some of Fairey’s attorneys are pulling out of the lawsuit. Which is actually a pity, as the most proper response to this situation is to root for injuries…

Moe Lane

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  • 6eorge Jetson

  • larryp

    into the memory-hole and disappears.
    Fairey sitll a hero to the Obamanites…

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  • leftylurker

    A loss in this case is pretty much bad for everyone but the AP.

  • Robert A. Hahn

    The AP is as far into the tank for Obama as Fairey is. They need to protect their IP as a matter of principle, but you’ll notice they didn’t bother pursue Fairey until after the inauguration.

    They’ll get to the point where it’s obvious to everyone that Fairey is going to get hosed (which point may have arrived with these announcements), then offer to settle for the sum of one dollar, the agreement to be sealed.

    Fairey will have ‘lost,’ the AP will have established their rights to their photography, and the object of their combined admiration will be in the White House.