tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post1101191716067687234..comments2023-10-17T08:19:58.196-04:00Comments on FreeThinke: FreeThinkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-44159008006812791082012-09-07T07:44:37.193-04:002012-09-07T07:44:37.193-04:00Finally! I've got a bit of time to blog! The...Finally! I've got a bit of time to blog! The first week of classes is always grueling and all-consuming.<br /><br />As for the plagiarism issue being brought by the feds (A prison sentence recommended!), I'm with Duck on his take on this matter.<br /><br />I will say that the AP is very strict about using excerpts from their items. I don't know if it's still the case, but their used to be a 25-word limit on copying and pasting excerpts from AP material. A few bloggers have come under fire from the AP.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-88594524510132995322012-09-07T06:42:26.852-04:002012-09-07T06:42:26.852-04:00I'd like to know why what Fairey did is consid...I'd like to know why what Fairey did is considered "wrong?"<br /><br />Only Ducky seems to understand that it's what he DID with the photo that made it "original."<br /><br />Should Andy Warhol have been sued and persecuted because of the unusual USE he made of what-appear-to-be-stock photographs of Marilyn Monroe?<br /><br />~ FTFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-56967149455988307272012-09-07T06:37:50.879-04:002012-09-07T06:37:50.879-04:00That's exactly right, Ducky.
"Art" ...That's exactly right, Ducky.<br /><br />"Art" is not determined by the raw material you use so much as what you <i>make</i> of it.<br /><br />Now if he used an original <i>drawing</i> or a <i>painting</i> fashioned by someone else's hand I might feel differently, but a lousy <i>photo</i>?<br /><br />Please! Give me a break.<br /><br />Hasn't the "art" in photography more to do with adjusting values of light and shade and cropping than merely pointing a clicking?<br /><br />I don't understand the hostility towards poor Fairey either, since his work essentially <i>glorifies</i> President Obama.<br /><br />Please tell us more about the "graffiti" charge.<br /><br />There must be more to this story -- something ugly and unpleasant about the artist -- to provoke such hostility.<br /><br />Of course MY point in posting this was to indicate the dangers of appointing libidiots to the "judishery," as some of the suhthun mushmouths call it.<br /><br />~ FT<br /><br />FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-65774632912455575392012-09-06T23:20:20.580-04:002012-09-06T23:20:20.580-04:00I'm surprised he attracts so much hostility. I...I'm surprised he attracts so much hostility. I remember he came into Massachusetts and some dickhead state cop tried to arrest him on a graffiti charge.<br />Lot of hatred for some reason.<br /><br />Now we have some plagiarism charge. Some B&W wire photo. The color scheme of the poster is what makes it artistic not the underlying commonplace portrait.<br /><br />This is the pure stinky cheese.<br />Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-982061849539088132012-09-06T15:39:31.984-04:002012-09-06T15:39:31.984-04:00I am in complete agreement with Average American&#...I am in complete agreement with Average American's take on the the prison term foolishness. It is highly politically motivated and has very ominous implications.<br /><br />If the picture is proven to have been in fact copied then yep he out the dough...Les Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-9711855417206809682012-09-06T14:58:36.758-04:002012-09-06T14:58:36.758-04:00If it is decided in court that he did in fact copy...If it is decided in court that he did in fact copy AP's picture rather than just use it as a guide to draw it, which I believe is the case, then his profits should rightfully go to AP. Why the feds are sticking their nose into it is questionable, and probably politically motivated. We all know what an ass holder is. I can see a hefty fine, but the prison part is only because the subject of the so-called "art work" is NOMObama.Average Americanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17211406136371011324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-67021832498122382902012-09-06T09:42:04.344-04:002012-09-06T09:42:04.344-04:00That all you got out of it, SF?
~ FTThat all you got out of it, SF?<br /><br />~ FTFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-30635263988227625342012-09-06T09:34:38.975-04:002012-09-06T09:34:38.975-04:00I don't believe in incarcerating non-violent c...I don't believe in incarcerating non-violent criminals who have not harmed others.<br /><br />What he did was wrong, so fine him and be done with it.Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.com