Shepard Fairey pleaded guilty on Feb. 24 to a federal charge of criminal contempt for destroying documents, fabricating evidence, and engaging in other misconduct amid litigation over his use of an Associated Press photo to create one of the 2008 presidential campaign’s most iconic images.
Shepard Fairey based his iconic poster on an AP photo.
Mr. Fairey’s plea came a little more than one year after he and the AP settled the lawsuit the artist brought against the news organization in a peremptory strike in 2009. The basis of Mr. Fairey’s suit was his claim that his reliance on the photo at issue as the basis for the so-called “Hope” poster was protected under the fair use provisions of copyright law.
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