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Artist Shepard Fairey, creator of the 2008 “Hope” poster of Obama and party to a bitter copyright battle against the Associated Press, was sentenced in federal court in Manhattan today to two years of probation and fined…
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H. Brian Holland, Associate Professor of Law at Texas Wesleyan School of Law, is publishing Social Semiotics in the Fair Use Analysis in a forthcoming issue of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. I haven’t had time…
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Not sure where this is going, but according to the Boston Herald, Judge Alvin Hellerstein, presiding over the Shepard Fairey vs. Associated Press lawsuit, said today at a hearing in New York that “he has a feeling that…
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I’m sure I’m not the only one who noticed the main image in today’s front section of the New York Times. The image (seen above on our site) captures a store in Beijing selling notebooks. On the lower right quadrant is a…
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U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein granted artist Shepard Fairey’s request to change lawyers. Judge Hellerstein did stipulate that Fairey can be questioned by lawyers on why he changed his story about which 2006…
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The Associated Press has asked a federal judge to deny a request by the attorneys of street artist Shepard Fairey to withdraw as his legal counsel. According to the Boston Globe, In papers filed Monday in Manhattan…
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