Obama Poster Guy Cops Plea — Shepard Fairey, the designer of those once-cool Obama “Hope” poster who was last seen on these pages being chased out of Europe as a “Yankee hipster“, has pleaded guilty to criminal contempt stemming from a copyright lawsuit over his iconic poster.
The Associated Press sued Fairey saying he violated the copyright held by the news service regarding the photo on which he based his poster.
Fairey said uh uh, that it was a different photo.
Well, no it wasn’t. But Fairey deleted files and created false documentation to show otherwise and that is why he now faces a six-month prison sentence.
Fairey says lying to the court was the worst thing that he’s ever done.
Actually, the worst thing that he has ever done was in November 2008 when voted for an complete incompetent to run this country.
Obama Poster Guy Cops Plea
