Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/12

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Subject: [Leica] AP countersuit
From: lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin)
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:52:48 -0400
References: <mailman.254.1236824969.54786.lug@leica-users.org>

The AP filed a countersuit against Shepard Fairey, the artist who  
ripped off an AP photo for his poster of Pres. Obama. Fairey claimed  
that his portrait was "fair use." The AP says it was plagerism. Read  
the details at:  http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/ 
pr_031109.html

Larry Z


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