2a. Throughout my college career I don’t think I’ve uses another designers work for my own. Not personally of course. If it was for a class assignment, then I still don’t think I’ve taken someones work and even if I did, I cited my work and gave the designer the credit. I would use other designers work as inspiration for my own. and I would credit them to explain how I gained my inspiration from. For any photography or product photos, I would google royalty free stock photos for my own project. Thats how we were taught for in the future we would need something specific for our product design. As examples.
2b. Reading the article about the Fairey v AP case, giving my opinion to the case: Fairey lied about the original photo that he used as well as destroyed documents that were relevant to the case so it got a bit clouded during the trial. I think that his penalty was necessary giving the fact that he tampered with evidence and lied about the photo. It was settled when they didn’t asked him wether or not he used AP photo under copyright law. Both parties agreed to share the image usage and any merchandise the design would be used in the future. I think that although he lied about using the image, he still didn’t get any money off of the design. I feel like the outcome would have been different if he hasn’t lied about using the image from AP or tampered with evidence in a not so fair way. The AP would have not agreed to share the photo usage with him, also more jail time for him and a greater penalty.
Ethics in Graphic Design: http://www.ethicsingraphicdesign.org/was-shepard-faireys-use-fair/
Shepard Fairey Case: https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/07/shephard-fairey-is-fined-and-sentenced-to-probation-in-hope-poster-case/
