A New Angle Emerges in Copyright Dispute Over Obama ‘Hope’ Image

A new party has entered the high-stakes copyright skirmish over a photograph that served as the basis for the most ubiquitous image of the 2008 presidential campaign: the man who took that photograph. So far, the dispute has pitted The Associated Press against artist Shepard Fairey, but freelance photographer Mannie Garcia, represented by Boies, Schiller & Flexner, says he is the rightful owner of the photograph copyrights.