The poster was said to the most efficacious American political illustration since the old Uncle Sam pointing saying "WE WANT YOU". However the poster was deemed apparently perpetuated illegally. The Obama campaign took no claim to this design even though Fairey said that wasn't completely true. After orders of change the new final product changed to instead of saying PROGRESS to HOPE and VOTE. Turning to legal issues Fairey was accused and harassed for appropriating others' artwork into his own while failing to provide attribution for the work used, ironically Fairey has done the same to other artists. In 2009, it was revealed that the HOPE poster was based on a copyrighted photograph taken in April 2006 by Mannie Garcia while on assignment for the Associated Press, which wants credit and compensation for the work. Even though Mannie claimed ownership to the photo she loved what became of it and what Fairey did to it artistically, Fairly said it was in fair use so he thought nothing of it, after more lawsuits Fairly tried to trick the court and destroy evidence, his lawyers dropped him and he was forced to settle.
I found this case interesting because I thought Fairey had the upper hand on the issues of fair use and his alters that there done to the photo, but then he destroyed evidence and lied when wasn't a smart move.
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