Podcast #8: “Street Art”: Fair Use of Prior Copyrights?
In today’s podcast, we discuss “street art”, which evidently isn’t just your grandfather’s graffiti anymore! Street art has lately been in the news particularly because of several prominent copyright infringement cases, and most notably fallout from Shepard Fairey’s 2008 Obama “Hope” posters. An even more recent controversy came out of the Oscar-nominated documentary film by Banksy, “Exit Through the Gift Shop”.
Along the way, we will touch on Run DMC, Thierry Guetta (aka “Mr. Brainwash”), “pop-art”, photography, Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg.
Joining me to discuss copyright, fair use, street art, what is street art and all that we can cover in 15 minutes … I’m joined by Brooke Jimenez. Brooke is a second-year law student at Georgetown University Law Center with a focus on international law, and a creative mind on issues of media law.
Stories mentioned in the podcast include this from The Art Newspaper, and this from George Will in the Washington Post. Please click the audio player link below for the podcast. Enjoy.
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