Fair Use and Obama portrait

The February 9 issue of the New York Times includes a report on a lawsuit filed by artist Shepard Fairey, involving Fairey's use of an AP image as the basis for his iconic portrait of Barack Obama. Attorney Anthony Falzone, featured in Archival Storytelling, is on the team asking the court to protect Fairey against copyright claims. According to the Times, "The suit asks the judge to declare that Mr. Fairey’s work is protected under fair-use exceptions to copyright law, which allow limited use of copyrighted materials for purposes like criticism or comment."