Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 9/15/00 1:50:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time, chucko@siteconnect.com writes: << A PHOTOGRAPHER who captured a defiant pose of the Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara won substantial damages yesterday after the portrait was used in a British advert for spicy vodka. Alberto Diaz Gutierrez, 72, took the advertising company Lowe Lintas and the Rex picture agency to the High Court to sue for breach of copyright. The 40-year-old photograph was used in a Smirnoff advertising campaign last year. >> Those #*@&+% lawyers are at it again! Joe Sobel