Hey Hey My My, Andrew Breitbart will never die - Updated

You'll recall I recently posted a stunning tribute to His Conservative Holiness, Zombie Andy Breitbart. I'm sure you've been lying awake nights wondering, from whence did this incredible artist get his inspiration? Well, mystery solved. Mr. Bugnon stole someone else's artwork:

Yeah, it’s not so much a painting as a Photoshop mashup of a stock photo of Andrew Breitbart and a character from the copyrighted computer game Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, with a pretty sunset-and-clouds background that probably also came from some stock photo website — no doubt somebody will find that soon, too.

Is this different enough to be considered fair use? Or is it a blatant ripoff? Judge for yourself:



And in the true spirit of conserative economics, Mr Bugnon believes in making a hefty profit:

As a conservative, Mr. Bugnon no doubt thinks that private property is a pretty big deal. Of course, as a conservative and entrepreneur, he also thinks that profit is a big deal; our own Biel_ze_Bubba points out that the cost of printing out a 36″ x 48″ giclee on canvas is only about $150. So figuring the production costs and a few hours of Bugnon’s time at the computer, that’s only about a 2000% markup on the big limited-edition version. Less, of course, if you factor in the licensing fees for using Ubisoft’s intellectual property…surely an upstanding conservative wouldn’t dream of just plagiarizing, would he?

Not that he mentioned it was a photoshop pretty much "swiped from someone else’s original work" in the original promo. Indeed, the casual reader might have thought it was an original painting. But hey. What's a little deception between the acolytes of the Church of the Eternal Breitbart? Somehow I think Andy would have approved.

Meanwhile, TBogg had a photoshop contest for the heretics who mock His Divine Omnipresence. I forgot my log-in over there and I'm too lazy to go through the retrieval process, but my choice was winning anyway. Which was #4. Loved all of them but #4 was the only one that made me literally laugh out loud. Maybe TBogg will see this and give me a vote.

Mandatory soundtrack: "There's more to the picture than meets the eye."

Update: Doktor Zoom checks into comments with this news: "As the perpetrator of the Wonkette Piece (and tonight, a shameless self-Googler), I thought you might like to know that Patriot Depot has sent the Breitbart picture down the memory hole, and David Bugnon has scubbed any mention of his masterpiece from his website and his Facebook account."

Sometimes I really love teh internets.

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