artcrime vs. warcrime

Shepard Fairey - Famed Obama Artist - Arrested for "Graffiti"

Edited on Sun Feb-08-09 02:38 PM by K Gardner BOSTON (Feb. 7) - A street artist famous for his red, white and blue "Hope" posters of President Barack Obama has been arrested on warrants accusing him of tagging property with graffiti, police said Saturday. Shepard Fairey was arrested Friday night on his way to the Institute of Contemporary Art for a kickoff event for his first solo exhibition, called "Supply and Demand. from "free culture" author lawrence lessig's blog: Shepard Fairey's AP troubles February 6, 2009 6:47 AM A bunch of you have forwarded to me the story about the AP threatening Shepard Fairey for copyright infringement. The Stanford Center's Fair Use Project is representing Fairey, so I'm a bit constrained about what I can say just now. More when there can be more.