Shepard Fairey linkage and a copyright case to melt your face

There's no real news to report in the Shepard Fairey/Hope poster/Associated Press case that I wrote about last week, but that hasn't stopped the journalists from continuing to cover it. That said, some of the commentary has been pretty interesting.

First, the primary sources:

Stanford Center for Internet and Society's Anthony Falzone has a blog.

The Associate Press communicates through press releases, available here.

Also:

Here's a nice long article from the New York Times.

Our own Chronicle chimed in with a nice long piece as well.

Finally, a taste of the hubbub surrounding Fairey's graffiti-related arrest in Boston last week, courtesy of LA Weekly.

In other copyright news, guitar-shredding-god Joe Satriani filed suit against soft-rock-gods Coldplay in December, claiming that the British band ripped off his 2004 instrumental "If I Could Fly." According to this Indian showbiz blog (I can't find a scoop in any more reputable sources), Coldplay's crack legal team has managed to fend off what is the second high-profile lawsuit against the band for this summer's hit "Viva la Vida."

Early evidence that every possible melody has in fact been recorded? You be the judge.