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AP: You Made Art From Our
Photo Without Permission Artist: But You Always Use Photos Of
My Art Without Permission
Part of the recent Associated
Press expansion into newspaper funnies
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Recently the Associated
Press, because the strategy worked so well for the RIAA, has
begun a campaign of legal action against anyone it feels is violating
its intellectual property rights. Without giving it much of a
thought. Apparently.
Coming shortly after its
embarrassing misguided threat against one of its own affiliates
for embedding videos from its official "please embed these
videos into your web pages using these embed codes" YouTube channel, the AP has filed
a complaint against artist Shepard Fairey for using an AP photo,
without permission, to create art while at the same time it constantly
uses photographs of Fairey's copyrighted artwork without his
permission for commercial gain.
"The AP claims copyright
ownership in, and makes commercial use of,
many photographs that consist almost entirely of copyrighted
artwork of Fairey and other artists without permission," Fairey's
attorney counterclaimed, while providing a dozen such photograph
examples in his response.
Gives new meaning to the term, "copyright violations."
Photo District News 15-Apr-2009
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