“Intellectual Property Asshole Competition”
(crossposted from CreativeFreedom.org.nz)
Those following the progress of the somewhat hypocritical legal battle between Shepard Fairey and the Associated Press over that wonderful image of Obama may be interested to hear that another artist has entered the debate. Artist Evan Roth has started an Intellectual Property Asshole Competition directed at Fairey and the AP by putting hand painted canvases of both Fairey’s Obama Hope poster and Mannie Garcia’s Associated Press photograph up for sale on his website, stating that “The first person to send me a cease and desist notice wins!”. In the words of techdirt “While we never think it’s a good idea to infringe for the sake of infringement, this ought to be fun to watch”….stay tuned!
