Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Folks, there is another possible explanation for this. Famous people get sued all the time. People are constantly suing pop musicians claiming that they actually wrote the latest hit song that made billions and billions of dollars, and are entitled to all that money. Usually such claims are without merit. Often they are settled just to make the suing party go away. The timing of the suit is suspicious: Just a couple of weeks before Annie L. is due to pay up the financial concern that consolidated her debts, or forfeit all her NYC property and her entire catalog of works. Despite the fact that the calendar has been out for a long time, and generated a lot of publicity when it came out. Why didn't he sue then? Isn't it possible that the Italian photographer saw a chance to jump on the gravy train when Annie probably has neither the time, money or energy to travel to Italy to defend herself. It looks like he's hoping either for a default judgment or a settlement. We haven't seen the Italian's original photos, compared with Annie's calendar composites. Nor do we know what his contract with Annie specified. --Peter > At 07:15 PM 9/6/2009, Steve wrote: > >> >But would you be happy for someone to take one of your photographs, use >> >it >> >as a backdrop, and neither give you a credit nor pay you for its use? >> > >> >Steve >> > > I would sue!! > > Tina >