Fair use does not claim you have complete copyright in the new work. Fair use is situation specific. A use for a political poster is different then a use for a commercialy sold t-shirt. Fairey could take the most commercial, non-educational use possible and try to get in ruling on that use in hopes that all other uses would also be considered fair use. <br>
<br>I am not sure a court has ever made a ruling that a work is so transformative that it is always fair use. Parody might be the closest to authorizing all use of a specific work that i can think of and even there the current potential market of the actual use is considered.<br>
<br>Brian Rowe<br>Freedom for IP <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Rob Myers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rob@robmyers.org">rob@robmyers.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Matt Lee wrote:<br>
> Is Fairey claiming full copyright over his finished work?<br>
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</div>That's what you can claim with Fair Use.<br>
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> Maybe someone needs to make "fair use" of it and see how he feels then.<br>
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</div>As long as he doesn't go all JibJab.<br>
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