Shepard Feira - author of the famous portrait of Barack Obama, OBAMA HOPE - in the intervals between the drives to the police Sues AR

Feira American artist Shepard (Shepard Fairey) - Star popular now street art and the author of the famous portrait of Barack Obama, OBAMA HOPE - was recently arrested on charges of damage to private and municipal property. The police detained him when he went to the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, which has just opened his first solo exhibition entitled «Demand and Supply». The preparation of this exhibition the artist was in Boston the last two weeks before his arrest. According to reports, he was released just a few hours later on bail, the amount is not reported. This happens with Feira is not the first time - it has been repeatedly detained for causing graffiti on public buildings and private buildings without permission.

Shepard Feira famous primarily as the author of a collage with a portrait of Obama, which has been widely rastirazhirovan during the last election in the USA. One of his originals recently even placed in the National Gallery in Washington, DC . But now this picture was the subject of litigation between the artist and the agency Associated Press, which owns the rights to the photograph as the basis for the collage. AP representatives insist on the payment of compensation, as well as specifying the name of the company when playing portrait. Lawyers Feira, in turn, argue that the use of AP photos in this case, defended the provision on «fair use», which allows an exemption from copyright laws.

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Sources: latimes.com , news.yahoo.com , artinvestment.ru