Thierry Guetta ('Mr. Brainwash') Loses Copyright Suit Over Use of RunDMC Photograph

If it was the goal of Thierry Guetta, aka Mr. Brainwash, to join the ranks of the street artist elite, as told in the Banksy documentary that made him a near household name, Exit Through the Gift Shop, then he has sort of kind of succeeded. Like Shepard Fairey vs. the Associated Press before him, a judge ruled against Guetta this week in a copyright suit involving the use and re-purposing of a photograph.