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Who is the bigger intellectual property asshole? Is it the artist who has amassed a small fortune based on “appropriation” yet still sends cease and desist letters to other artists for appropriating his work?
Or is it the largest (and only) US based nationally-oriented news service which fails to recognize “fair use” even when it literally stares them in the face?
I have created hand painted canvases of Shepard Fairy’s Obama Hope poster, and Mannie Garcia’s Associated Press photograph and put them for sale on my website here and here.
….. stay tuned for updates on the winner.
(For those unfamiliar with the Shepard Fairy / Associated Press intellectual property battle over the Obama Hope poster, here is a good place to start.)
(via evan-roth.com)
We’d like to thank everyone that participated, published and put up with our week of Kanye Webst. We know there are more important issues going on the world so thanks for indulging with us in seven days of hip-hop, caps lock, source code and popular culture. The week produced 12 new projects, 5 sets of source code, 81 comments and 27 user uploaded images.
Kanye Webst Week has been the biggest traffic week in FAT history to date! Over 70,000 visits:
Digg: 680 diggs, 148 votes [frontpaged] (+3)
Reddit: 70 upvotes & 15 comments across 7 stories: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Twitter: 300+ mentions
Some of our projects were frontpaged on Digg, Gizmodo, Gawker, PSFK, todayandtomorrow.net, BuzzFeed, Rhizome, urlesque, A-Trak’s blog, Village Voice, National Post, and ANIMAL among many others (thanks for the love). Pretty much everyone but the man himself, which leaves us asking only one question… WHERE ARE YOU YEEZY?!??!??!! FOR REAL, CAN WE GET SOME BLOG LOVE?!??!??!??!?!?!
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