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Imitators Profiting From Artist's Obama Design

By Alex Cohen

Published August 29, 2008 at 6:00 AM EDT

An image of Barack Obama by artist Shepard Fairey has become one of the most popular images of the campaign. But Fairey, whose posters have helped raise money for the campaign, says he has little patience for people who have copied the image for personal profit or resold his posters — at huge markups — on eBay.

Alex Cohen

Alex Cohen is the reporter for NPR's fastest-growing daily news program, Day to Day where she has covered everything from homicides in New Orleans to the controversies swirling around the frosty dessert known as Pinkberry.

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