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PITTSBURGH — Artist Shepard Fairey, who recently admitted concealing a key mistake in a lawsuit over his use of an Associated Press photo in his...
Huffington Post | Posted 10.12.2009 | Style
Shepard Fairey, well-known for his Obama 'Hope' poster, will soon have another design deal under his belt. According to WWD, Fairey is set to sell a c...
Thomas Frank | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
Barack Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.
Washington Post | Garance Franke-Ruta | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
So much for HOPE. That, at least, is the symbolic message sent by an anti-ACORN activist or group that targeted Studio Number One in Los Angeles, the ...
Tom Matlack | Posted 09.16.2009 | Media
These two guys set out to write a book about what it means to be a good man -- not self-help drivel, not book about guys for women.
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
These are troubling times for those who supported Barack Obama for President.
Michael Shaw | Posted 09.11.2009 | Media
Honestly, the whole "Death Panel" thing was so "out there," it didn't resonate with me until I came across this Newscom photo today.
Shepard Fairey | Posted 09.06.2009 | Style
It's been six-plus months since Obama took office, and the new Rolling Stone cover is the first image of Obama I've created in that time.
Tom Matlack | Posted 08.22.2009 | Media
Fairey's work is on the cover of Time and he has a major show at the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art but ultimately he is just fucking cool.
Jonathan Melber | Posted 08.14.2009 | Media
I still think the "Hope" poster constitutes fair use. But if anyone can convince a court otherwise, it's photographer Mannie Garcia's formidable legal team.
AP | MELISSA TRUJILLO | Posted 08.10.2009 | Media
BOSTON — The artist who created the "Hope" poster of President Barack Obama was sentenced to two years of probation Friday after pleading guilty...
Jack Healey | Posted 07.25.2009 | World
We've been horrified by what's happening in Iran. This has been the status quo inside Burma for nearly two decades. What will it take for people to get outraged at this oppression?
Jason Pollock | Posted 07.05.2009 | Media
I have never made an announcement like this in all my 27 years on this planet. My film, The Youngest Candidate, will have its world premier during the Los Angeles Film Festival.
Shepard Fairey | Posted 05.17.2009 | Media
If AP photographs that do nothing but depict other artists' work are protected by fair use, then my work has to be, too. The AP can't have it both ways.
Art Brodsky | Posted 05.09.2009 | Media
Not content with trying to destroy the concept of fair use for images, the Associated Press is now threatening a war on the words of the Internet.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics
It's Friday, and I'm feeling generous and mercurial, so here's a fun and shameless plug! Los Angelenos in the house? This Saturday, enjoy the dynami...
Ashlee Harrison | Posted 05.04.2009 | Style
Charles Cohen asked Shepard Fairey and Matthew Rolston about the how they're changing business for this economy, what's inspiring them now, and why LA beats out New York.
Patricia Amaya | Posted 05.04.2009 | Entertainment
Lynch: "I was a painter and then I got into film -- things were going pretty good. I only had a surface happiness. Inside it was hollow. True happiness lays within."
Shepard Fairey | Posted 04.26.2009 | Media
I can't talk about every aspect of my case with the AP over the Obama HOPE poster, but there are a few things I want to discuss and points I'd like to make.
Jonathan Melber | Posted 04.12.2009 | Media
An AP victory in this case would undermine artistic freedom. And it would, to paraphrase Lawrence Lessig, effectively outlaw a legitimate form of art.
AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 04.11.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — The Associated Press countersued an artist Wednesday over his famous image of Barack Obama, saying the uncredited, uncompensated use ...
AP | RUSSELL CONTRERAS | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics
BOSTON — The street artist who created the famous "Hope" poster of President Barack Obama expects to face new vandalism charges relating to the ...
Jonathan Melber | Posted 03.21.2009 | Media
Eric Cantor is getting a lesson on what "fair use" isn't: his chest-beating, stimulus-opposing, victory-proclaiming video set to the tune of Aerosmith's "Back in the Saddle."
AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 03.12.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — An artist who created a famous image of Barack Obama before he became president sued The Associated Press on Monday, asking a judge t...
Jonathan Melber | Posted 03.11.2009 | Media
Why is the AP acting like it has a case? Because juries are unpredictable, copyright law is confusing and defending a lawsuit is extremely expensive.
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AP | HILLEL ITALIE and JOE MANDAK | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media