Doing interpretative paintings from news photography is so far inside fair use that it boggles the mind that anyone could be this offensively hostile to expressive freedoms.

Fuck AP.

(The Obama CHANGE poster case was about 1,000 times more meritorious than this, and that was a non-starter)

own visual artwork or writing copied or presented by someone else as their own? It sucks, I'll tell you. And it's galling.

yikes

at all, it was nothing more than a photoshopped copy of the copyright-protected photo. AP is well within its rights to protest this and shut it down. Then again, who's surprised? Zimmy doesn't have enough brain cells, let alone creativity and originality, to paint or create anything original at all. And of course he'd feel entitled to do whatever he wanted without any consequences or accountability. And so far he's been able to do just that, including getting away with cold-blooded murder of an innocent kid just trying to walk home from the damned store.

At minimum Zimmerman must show he didn't just photoshop it, print it out, and paint over it in a color by numbers sort of way.

Which he won't be able to show because that's clearly what he did.

Now I hope the prosecutor can sue him for using her image.

Just sayin'

In this link the Mutual of Omaha case come pretty close. http://www.usip.com/pdf/Article_Trademarks/parodytm.pdf

plagiarizing murderers, or just when it suits you?

That is all.

If he gets a ton of money for this, I am going to do one and say I'm him....

Flood ebay with thousands of paintings done by "George Zimmerman". Of course, the paintings would have to past two tests.

One, they would have to be very poorly done. And two, they would have to have some slight connection with the case. So paint a gavel next to a Florida orange. Sign it George Zimmerman. Paint a tank rumbling down a sidewalk, going past a palm tree. Sign it George Zimmerman.

messing with a media company's copyright?

That can get you some serious legal trouble.

He's very high on himself and he cannot stop and will not stop until he is stopped.
High's and lows is all he knows.

He's a killer, ya know!

Unlike, say, shooting an unarmed kid?

Thanks, AP! I can imagine Zimmerman's face when he receive that cease and detest letter!