{"id":1108,"date":"2009-02-09T02:24:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T01:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2009-02-09T02:24:05","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T01:24:05","slug":"ap-threatens-to-sue-the-dude-that-made-the-obama-graphic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=1108","title":{"rendered":"AP Threatens to sue the Dude that Made the Obama Graphic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1110\" title=\"shepard-fairey-barack-obama-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/v3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/shepard-fairey-barack-obama-1.jpg\" alt=\"shepard-fairey-barack-obama-1\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the group is saying that Shepard Fairey owes them tons of money for his <em>HOPE<\/em> portrait that became the unofficial-but-iconic image of the Obama campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The AP says, and Fairey openly agrees, that his image was based on a photo taken by an AP photog.<\/p>\n<p>The AP says the image is copyrighted, and now they want money and credit from Fairey&#8217;s version of the pic. But Fairey says he&#8217;s covered under &#8220;fair use&#8221; a legal principle that provides specific circumstances under which copyrighted material can be used without permission or fees.<\/p>\n<p>Fairey didn&#8217;t receive any profit from the image &#8211; all proceeds from sales of the poster were donated to the Obama campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, the group is saying that Shepard Fairey owes them tons of money for his HOPE portrait that became the unofficial-but-iconic image of the Obama campaign.<br \/>\nThe AP says, and Fairey openly agrees, that his image was based on a photo taken by an AP photog.<br \/>\nThe AP says the image is copyrighted, and now they want [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}