Shepard Fairey's Bad Week: Copyright Infringement and Arrested in Boston

It wasn’t a great time to be Shepard Fairey last week. First he was accused by the Associated Press for copyright infringement, saying his now-iconic Barack Obama painting was blatantly copied from a photograph taken by Mannie Garcia, who works for the A.P. Now it’s a battle in court for an artist whose career is built on borrowing and re-purposing, yet doesn’t always like when people do it to him (see: Exhibit A (which is particularly ironic) and Exhibit