Fun and games with photos

[andrewducker]

I have a fair few photos of me on my website, including this passport photo:



You can imagine that I was pretty surprised to have my friend Scott tell me that a local bar (Pivo) had promotional postcards that looked like this:



Tomorrow, I shall be going into town to find a solicitor and see if I have a case I can make....

Comments

[alienspacebat.livejournal.com]

You should be able to make a case on both copyright abuse (as the original is still recognisable in the new form), abuse of moral rights, lack of a model release and defamation of character to name but a few. I would reckon they will settle out of court. I have a book on photographic law if you want me to look up details....

[andrewducker]

Cheers, I'd appreciate that. I'm actually feeling to ill to do anything today, so I'll be doing it on Monday instead, I suspect.