Editorial cartoonist Dan Wasserman takes on poster artist Shepard Fairey: “I understand that we live in a world of rampant sampling and remixing, but claiming to be hip or leftist is not an excuse for ripping off other creators. It’s not even fundamentally a legal issue (though it may be that as well) — it’s respect for other artists. And the argument that the art is ‘transformative,’ so no nod to the original is necessary, is a weak one.”