Fighting among themselves ?

[tombogan03884]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091017/ap_on_en_ot/us_ap_poster_artist

NEW YORK – Attorneys for poster artist Shepard Fairey, who designed the famous Obama "HOPE" image, say he based it on a photograph taken by The Associated Press and not another picture, as the artist had claimed.

In papers filed Friday in federal court in Manhattan, Fairey's attorneys said they had amended their lawsuit against the AP, which had alleged copyright infringement.

Fairey sued the not-for-profit news cooperative in February, arguing that he didn't violate copyright law because he dramatically changed the image. The AP countersued in March, saying the uncredited, uncompensated use of an AP photo violated copyright laws and signaled a threat to journalism.

[JC5123]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091017/ap_on_en_ot/us_ap_poster_artist

NEW YORK – Attorneys for poster artist Shepard Fairey, who designed the famous Obama "HOPE" image, say he based it on a photograph taken by The Associated Press and not another picture, as the artist had claimed.

In papers filed Friday in federal court in Manhattan, Fairey's attorneys said they had amended their lawsuit against the AP, which had alleged copyright infringement.

Fairey sued the not-for-profit news cooperative in February, arguing that he didn't violate copyright law because he dramatically changed the image. The AP countersued in March, saying the uncredited, uncompensated use of an AP photo violated copyright laws and signaled a threat to journalism.

Somebody is going to have to explain to me just exactly what constitutes "journalism" these days.

Though on a side note, I always liked "Divide and Conquer" tactics. 

[WatchManUSA]

Journalism today is take a press release, based on fact or fiction, rephrase it and print it as news.

Look at almost any medium to large city newspaper today and about 90% of it is reprinted from some other source.

[tombogan03884]

Journalism today is take a press release, based on fact or fiction, rephrase it and print it as news.

Look at almost any medium to large city newspaper today and about 90% of it is reprinted from some other source.

Usually unnamed because they aren't supposed to be running their pie holes.

[brosometal]

Journalism today is take a press release, based on fact or fiction, rephrase it and print it as news.

Look at almost any medium to large city newspaper today and about 90% of it is reprinted from some other source.

I took a different tack.  Most don't have the common decency to even rephrase anything, but reprint, whole cloth, the press release.

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