GenX artist jammed up. Associated Press looking to cash in on a photo they forgot they took.
On buttons, posters and Web sites, the image was everywhere during last year's presidential campaign: A pensive Barack Obama looking upward, as if to the future, splashed in a Warholesque red, white and blue and underlined with the caption HOPE.
Designed by Shepard Fairey, a Los-Angeles based street artist, the image has led to sales of hundreds of thousands of posters and stickers, has become so much in demand that copies signed by Fairey have been purchased for thousands of dollars on eBay.
2 comments:
u have got to be kidding me. what a bunch of bitter punks. now that newspapers are folding and their wire service is not in as much demand, they've got to get money like the rest of us: lawsuit. hahaha. except, this is really not funny. what a bunch of PUNKS. talk about buying bad pr.
in other news, the tulsa world is suing an oklahoma blogger for saying on his blog that the world inflated its circulation numbers. bottom line: print journalism is hurting.
Print journalism wouldn't be so bad off had they stopped printing the David Broders/Maureen Dowds of the world. I gain more from reading the ingredients on a tube of toothpaste than I do from most editorial pages.
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