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Obama Photog Says "You're Both Wrong" To AP & Fairey
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In Fairey v. Associated Press, the Associated Press said artist Shepard Fairey's painting had infringed its copyrights in a photo of then-President Elect Barack Obama. Fairey said no, it was a 'fair use'. Now, the freelance photographer who actually took the AP photo — Manuel Garcia — has sought permission to intervene in the case, saying that both the AP and Fairey are wrong. Garcia's motion (PDF) protests that he, not AP, is the owner of the copyright in the photograph, and that he never relinquished it to AP. And he argues that Fairey is not entitled to a fair use defense. According to an article in TechDirt, this intervention motion by Mr. Garcia represents a changed attitude on his part, and that his initial reaction to Mr. Fairey's painting was admiration, and a desire for an autographed litho. Maybe Mr. Fairey should have given him that autographed litho."
Humor only evades the stupid...
You just had to bring that up didn't you? The libtards are frothing at the mouth with their "1t waz DRUDGE lies!!!!111 omg" and regurgitating AP 'stories' about how it was all made up...
I couldn't give a toss about fair use, copyrights, yadda yadda. Just don't start painting multi-story portraits of the man on the sides of buildings, please. He's got 7.5 years left; start getting use to the idea now because I am certain that for many of you it won't be enough time to accept that this too shall pass.
...This is good publicity for that nice looking ass. Nerds are like "What ass?" You men you!
Despite the major news-papers' best efforts, the bottom has fallen off of whatever container was holding support for Obama. Perhaps, Mr. Garcia is one of the remorseful buyers of the "we are the ones we've been waiting for" snake oil, and, somewhat literally, wants his money back?
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
or if they had dropped the entire title and put in 'This news story is immensely irrelevant'.
This whole... "President Erkle did this, that, Breaking News: he farted yesterday, last night he put his shoes on, next week he's going to Knucklehead, Illinois for meetings with...." Just give us results dude. That's your effin' job. Enjoy any upskirt you like Erkle..., stop complaining about the guy that came before, ditch the teleprompt and get some, at least SOME shit done. 2012's next week in political time. And what does this have to do with the price of MS Office in China anyway?
Sarkoszy, on the other hand, stares at her ass for a good 10 seconds.
Unless your gay, who wouldn't? If I was there, I would be staring for as long as I could. Guess that's why I could never run for office. Shit like that would get me into trouble fast. =)
Life is not for the lazy.
Who said anything about politics/politicians/corruption? Not me. You started out awfully defensive. I don't care why.
You said: "The video tells a completely different story from that still. Believe what you want to believe though." Clearly you're implying that I'm believing a fantasy and/or I'm out to attack the man's credibility. I explained my position. I'm sorry you found it "defensive" but that isn't really my problem. I was defending nothing. I was explaining to you that it was a joke, which you clearly didn't get in the first place. Others did and it got modded funny.
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Sarko is the only man on stage in fact. I'd be all over that ass as well.
"... the president in interesting places meeting interesting people."
and killing them?