On yesterday's CBS Sunday Morning, there was a segment on Shepard Fairey, the man who designed the now-famous poster of Obama in blue & red hues with the word HOPE across the bottom. Time magazine first published this image on its front cover. Fairey transformed the image to icon status. It was amazing to hear him discuss "fair use" of the image for his artistic purposes. This was reinforced by a museum director, confirming that Fairey's use transformed the original into something completely different. Here's the article:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/22/sunday/main4818530.shtml
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Talk about timing, huh? I think the conversation around this has been so interesting ... at first it seemed that people completely agreed that it was a copyright infringement ... but that word "transformative" is very important and, I agree, the reason it isn't a copyright infringement.
I found that Obama image rather disturbing - overly idealized and too simplistic. It has a lot in common not only with the worst of socialist art from Soviet times, but also has some stylistic resemblance to art under some fascist dictatorships: lacking in complexity and depth, too much idealization of projected hopes on one untested leader.
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