[Leica] a photographer sued

[steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)]

On May 30, 2013, at 12:58 PM, John Nebel <john.nebel at csdco.com> wrote:

> Watch out, a personal note!
> 
> There is an aspect of suing photographers which I haven't seen discussed 
> in this thread, and it is somewhat unnerving.  In the US, anyone can sue 
> anyone at anytime, for practically anything, and depending on the amount 
> of money they are willing to spend, it can go on for quite a while.
> 
> I was sued, and a photograph of a building without humans or pets taken 
> from the public sidewalk was part of the suit.  It didn't matter that 
> virtually the same image was on a public site, this was a thought offense. 
>  The attorney doing the suing had the treasury of a wealthy non-profit 
> behind him and hired a large upscale law firm and fought on with 
> increasing desperation for three years.  One of the plaintiffs, the 
> non-profit, finally settled and publicly apologized, the other settled.
> 
> Then the attorney instigating the suit and the firm which he hired then 
> separately sued the non-profit, who counter-sued, and this went on for a 
> couple of more years, thankfully without me.  Years later, the non-profit 
> awarded me a medal of merit.
> 
> So be careful out there!



and all of this obviously costs lots of money, no matter how frivolous, 
assumptions of one's innocence notwithstanding.



Steve



> 
> John
> 
> 
> <http://www.numismaticnews.net/article/settlement_in_cipoletti_case>
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