Hasta La Ideas

It’s already been more than a full year of battle between the Associated Press and Shepard Fairey over his now-iconic Barack Obama “Hope” poster. Since then, we’ve seen the artist lie about where he got his source material, admit to lying (much to the chagrin of his lawyers), and hit the road to talk about his deceit. Now it looks like we might be nearing an end to this drawn out process, as the judge overseeing the case has just urged the two parties settle and wrap this argument up once and for all. Unsurprising to anyone, and likely even to Fairey, Judge Alvin Hellerstein has said that he feels confident that the AP will easily win the case, so if the organization will drop its push to have the artist punished for copyright infringement, erasing evidence, etc., and just makes some sort of financial agreement, the process can come to an end. However, despite his recommendations, it doesn’t sound like either side is quite ready to throw in the towel and word from both sounds like the fight will continue, at least for now.

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