Trial Date Set for Associated Press vs Shepard Fairey Case

Now that one part of the Shepard Fairey vs. the Associated Press ordeal is over, with photographer Mannie Garcia withdrawing his suit against the AP, it’s time to get back to the main event. A trial has finally been set, beginning March 21st in New York and expected to take three weeks. While still facing possible criminal charges for falsifying information and erasing evidence, this trial will concentrate solely on the AP’s allegations that Fairey used a photograph, taken by Garcia, that the AP holds the copyright to and was not credited or paid by the artist for its reuse in his now-iconic Barack Obama poster.