Nick Douglas posted a link to this pretty interesting article alleging that many of Shephard Fairey’s iconic images are actually stolen and decontextualized from existing political art and propaganda.

Ron Bailey reblogged the link, adding this quote:

“You owe the companies nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.” 
— Banksy

Unfortunately, this Banksy quote has nothing to do with the sort of plagiarism that Fairey is being accused of here. He’s not being accused of stealing from corporations, but from political artists in many cases working under oppressed conditions. They are not the corporation. HE IS THE CORPORATION.