personally, for me, it's less about copyright and more about respecting the intent, context, meaning, and place of the work from which you're copying. I don't believe for a second that Fairey is anything more than your run of the mill consumer activist, capitalist, fauxgressive, and I feel like the linked article, while making good points about whether or not it's classic plagarism, kind of goes out of its way to avoid the teeth of the matter of misappropriation BY people of extreme privilege (which is what Fairey truly is and what he was before he was famous) FROM marginalized people whose work was meant to convey a message and promote social justice, not to garner profit. Fairey is ostensibly supportive of the people he borrow/steals/appropriates from and/or pays tribute to, but the behavior doesn't mirror the message.
but I don't really care about the Obama poster at all, just his larger career.
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Date: 2009-02-12 06:21 pm (UTC)but I don't really care about the Obama poster at all, just his larger career.