* Further developments in the on-going Shepard Fairey vs the Associated Press battle over the visual origins of Fairey's Obama "Hope" poster: On Monday, a judge ruled in favor of the AP, and said that Fairey's lawyers "must disclose the identities of anyone who deleted or destroyed records" related to the case well as submit a thorough accounting of all profits made from sales of the poster, none of which bodes well for Fairey financially or otherwise. On the plus side, perhaps he can use proceeds from his upcoming show at Deitch Projects to fund his legal bills.
* Google has been hit with a class-action lawsuit in New York for the digitization of printed material as part of its Google Books Library Project. Plaintiffs include the American Society of Media Photographers, the Graphic Artists Guild, the Picture Archive Council of America and the North American Nature Photography Association.