Shepard Fairey admits lying about image used in HOPE poster
Saturday, October 17th, 2009
‘Hope’ Poster Artist Admits Error
Shepard Fairey, a Los Angeles-based street artist with a long, often proud history of breaking rules, said in a statement Friday that he was wrong about which photo he used and that he tried to hide his error. It was not immediately clear whether he would drop his lawsuit against the AP over the use of the photo.
This doesn’t clear up the copyright infringement issue but it does show that Fairey isn’t the best poster boy for fair use policy debate.
The issue isn’t that he used the image, the issue is that he used the image without citing the photographer and then sold posters based on it.
