He claims to be the creator of it, by adding “socialism” to the bottom, however, the original creator of “Joker Obama” was Firas Alkhateeb in January 2009.
After Eddie put “socialism” underneath, he fired off a DMCA to Alkhateeb and Flickr, which required Flickr to restructure their copyright policies.
I don’t believe anything came of it, but as far as I could tell, Firas Alkhateeb was a little confused as to why some random guy was telling him he wasn’t allowed to use his own image, however, is it really surprising that Eddie took something, tossed some text on it and then went after the original owner for copyright infringement?
EDIT - I forgot who mentioned it earlier (I think
@FisterSister ), but it was also pointed out that he stole other artwork (the logo image for his “pornstarbrand of Beverly Hills” business,) from a guy off DeviantArt and then proceeded to tell the artist he wasn’t allowed to post “copyrighted material” and to "take it down, thx."