The great thing about the Internet is, it has made it easier for people who are clever and resourceful to promote themselves.
Shepard FaireyThe world has lost a great musician who will always be an inspiration to me and those at OBEY GIANT.
Shepard FaireyI do think that copyrights and intellectual property are important - it's important to be able to keep people from making verbatim copies of a particular creation that could somehow hurt the creator. If I spend time conceiving and making a piece of art and somebody else sees that it has market value and replicates it in order to steal part of my market, then that's not cool.
Shepard FaireyThe problem with copyright enforcement is that when the parameters aren't incredibly well defined, it means big corporations, who have deeper pockets and better lawyers, can bully people.
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