Who said crime doesn't pay?
A letter with the AP's demands said that Zimmerman's painting was a direct copy of an AP photo taken at the April 2012 news conference where Corey announced Zimmerman would be charged with murder. It was taken for the AP by freelancer Rick Wilson. The news cooperative asked that any sale be blocked — and that, if there has been a sale, that the AP be paid damages.
Zimmerman sold another painting on eBay last month, with a winning bid of $100,099.99.
As a comparison, the article details a similar and well known case involving Shepard Fairey's famous Obama "HOPE" poster. The result of a suit and counter-suit was Fairey agreeing to pay the AP $1.6 million.
Link includes photo of Zimmerman's "painting" and the AP photo from which it is alleged to have been copied.
P.S. After studying Zimmerman's so-called "painting" and the AP photo side-by-side, I don't think there's going to be much debate on whether it was copied.
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