The Mr. Fairey was sued by the Associated Press in 2009 for copyright infringement for using a photo by AP photographer Mannie Garcia. I Believe that a lot of creatives had done and recreated images like this and did painting of this photograph and could have made the same mistake on not crediting the person. This is like when working on a paper and where you have to analyze an article, you are putting into your own words this article however that doesn’t mean that you didn’t take the idea from the article and inspiration from it you have to cite the article where you took the idea from.
The New York Times article mentions, “The parties also agreed to share the rights to make posters and merchandise bearing the ‘Hope’ image. Mr. Fairey maintained that he had never personally profited from sales of the image, a contention The A.P. disputed”. I think that Mr. Fairey was a very well known artists even if he wasn’t making money out of that piece he should had credited the photographer since he owned this image and even if he recreated the image as a whole he still used the source. This case made me realize how important it is as a creative person to not forget to give credit to the person you used a source from. Even if you got inspiration from their work, this could affect your career if you get involved in these kinds of issues.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PBKC_OcMyIZEzeKxdqCupo_twbLJNP5K/view?usp=sharing
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/229396/barack-obama-hope-poster
