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Home Front: Politix
Artist behind iconic Obama poster faces six months in jail
2012-02-25
Obama's Feds want to lock poor Fairey up. There's gratitude for you.
The creator of the Barack Obama 'HOPE' poster has pleaded guilty to criminal contempt for lying about the photo he used to create the image.

Shepard Fairey said he made a 'terrible decision' in 2009 to destroy some documents and fabricate others in a lawsuit about an Associated Press photograph he relied upon to make the poster.

Fairey entered the plea in federal court to the misdemeanor charge, which carries a maximum potential penalty of up to six months in prison.

Posted by:tipper

#6  Gromky, how many people over the age of forty ever utter the words, "Hold my beer!"?
Posted by: no mo uro   2012-02-25 12:54  

#5  Maybe Bambi will give him a pardon if he forks over enough boodle.

Oh, wait - the lawyers got there first....
Posted by: Barbara   2012-02-25 11:04  

#4  AP President and CEO Tom Curley said in a statement: 'Mr. Fairey started this case by suing the AP over copyright fair use issues."

Thou shall not confound the Lords of the Copyright.

"The AP never expected the case to take the turn that it did."

Were they expecting "hanging from a bridge" or "penniless for life and both hands broken"?

Seems I recall that Fairey also was assaulted and battered in Denmark last year. Apparently the artiste is having a rather long run of misfortune.
Posted by: Pappy   2012-02-25 10:53  

#3  Aw. He'll still be able to vote after this.
Posted by: Eric Jablow   2012-02-25 07:37  

#2  "It feels so good, it can't be wrong"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2012-02-25 04:29  

#1  Young people simply do not perceive that their actions have consequences. Nor that there are right things to do and wrong things to do. Nope, just do what I took a split-second to decide what was best for me, and fuck everything else.
Posted by: gromky   2012-02-25 04:07  

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