Political ad question

[Todd Terry]

[Grinner]“I pulled 14 images from google today for a negative political spot. Will I catch any grief? Not even a little bit.”

Will you catch any grief? Possibly, though highly unlikey.

Will you get caught? Chances are pretty slim.

Is it legal? Pretty cut-and-dried that it’s not.

Is it “right”? Ummm… nope.

“Fair use” is a pretty gray-area defense to call. Just ask artist Shepard Fairey. His famous trio-tone Obama “Hope” poster was simply based on another photograph, and his painting didn’t even actually use the real photo. And even though it was not even a for-pay job, it still got him on the business end of a multi-million dollar lawsuit brought by the AP and photographer Mannie Garcia over rights violations.

People rip off other people’s work all the time. Some people seem fine with doing that, others have a problem with it. All I know is that, personally, I’ve raised holy hell about it when it has happened to me on a couple of occasions.

T2

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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com