Friday, July 6, 2012

Copyright infrindgemnt, or fair use? Week 6

So after reading the article about how the street artist Shepard Fairey used a picture of Obama he found on Google search to make a poster supporting the campaign, I was kind of up in the air about it.
I do think he changed it enough though, even the person who took the original photo had no idea that he had taken it!
It is a fine line though, and I believe that before you take someones photo, you should at least try and see if you can have permission to change it, even if you are making it into something they themselves won't recognize.
That's my take on it at least.

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