There's a bit of a hoopla going on right now about copyrights and art sources for artists.
The street artist
Shepard Fairey created the now-famous three-color
"Obama Hope" posterTurns out the image is based on an Associated Press photo by freelance photographer MAnnie Garcia
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For example, this political cartoon
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(2) For the AP photographing art, it's just another sort of hypocrisy.
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As for the photographing art, yeah, it strikes me as hypocritical, but ultimately that doesn't justify a different act of infringement by a third party. It'd be like robbing the home of someone who has robbed other people's homes. It's arguably hypocritical for your victim to complain, but that's not really a defense.
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