Comments on: Shepard Fairey Plagiarist? You Be The Judge

By: sfh

sfh — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:57:54 +0000

he’s a hack.

By: David Goldberg

David Goldberg — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:29:52 +0000

Thanks for posting this, its good for the kiddies who had not read Marks Article, and think Obey is god.

By: drew

drew — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:02:29 +0000

worse than any plagiarism for me is the utter boredom i feel when i see any of his stuff. he has made, literally, no creative or artistic strides forward in ten years and has only rehashed the same cliche ideas and politics.
the fact that he goes around suing people for using his imagery in more creative ways than he used the imagery that he stole is just sad.

do kids still like this kind of stuff? i feel like even they have better taste now, or at least know when something needs to end.

By: lmno

lmno — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:17:17 +0000

OLD NEWS!
andy warhol was also plagist because he used Merlin’s Monro face without crediting the source.

i think it was clear for every one that obey does it.

By: Amir

Amir — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:06:29 +0000

Found another interesting article to add to the debate: http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A59932

By: Amir

Amir — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:32:26 +0000

another interesting read: http://www.justseeds.org/blog/2007/12/a_response_to_obey_plagiarist_1.html

By: Amir

Amir — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:20:01 +0000

To be fair I also found this article that is a rebuttal: http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/graphic-content-shepard-fairey-is-not-a-crook/