Help: I Am Being Sued for Nearly $500,000 by a Model I Photographed
Jan 11, 2015 23:09:10 #
Help: I Am Being Sued for Nearly $500,000 by a Model I Photographed
http://petapixel.com/2015/01/11/help-sued-nearly-500000-model-photographed
http://petapixel.com/2015/01/11/help-sued-nearly-500000-model-photographed
Jan 12, 2015 07:08:01 #
It is sad. You can be sued for anything, and being in the right does not protect you from a huge debt for attorney fees or from destruction of your reputation. It is what physicians face often (not to say there are not plenty of justifiable malpractice suits) - sometimes the insurance company wants to quietly settle, and sometimes that is better than years of ongoing bad publicity and legal expense. Sometimes people feel they can get a quick buck from filing a frivolous suit.
Jan 12, 2015 10:59:23 #
St3v3M wrote:
Help: I Am Being Sued for Nearly $500,000 by a Model I Photographed
http://petapixel.com/2015/01/11/help-sued-nearly-500000-model-photographed
http://petapixel.com/2015/01/11/help-sued-nearly-500000-model-photographed
In our country the accused are innocent until proven guilty. Unless they can produce a sales receipt, invoice, or bank statement showing you personally sold the images to one of these porn sites or companies, I don't think they can win anything. Of course even without winning, they have still caused you a lot of harm as I expect you hiring an attorney and loss of faith in your photography business is/has been expensive. Have you thought of counter suing for defamation of character? If they can't prove their allegations, this is exactly what they've done!
Jan 12, 2015 17:06:05 #
I got to thinking about how to determine the source of the leak. What about putting letter or number codes embedded in the photo. Using dark blue on a black background would not show, but could be changed in a digital image to show the code. In print, you would have to determine how much contrast would be needed to prove a case. Printers can embed a code to ID a specific printer. Why not create your own code based on distribution: CD= customer digital, CP=cust. print, etc.
Don't know if this would work, but it can't hurt. At least you would have a trail.
Don't know if this would work, but it can't hurt. At least you would have a trail.
Jan 12, 2015 18:10:53 #
NeilL
Loc: British-born Canadian
St3v3M wrote:
Help: I Am Being Sued for Nearly $500,000 by a Model I Photographed
http://petapixel.com/2015/01/11/help-sued-nearly-500000-model-photographed
http://petapixel.com/2015/01/11/help-sued-nearly-500000-model-photographed
Too many lawyers, not enough business to go around.
Jan 12, 2015 18:55:35 #
Bridges wrote:
In our country the accused are innocent until prov... (show quote)
The court of public opinion can often be the more cruel judge.
Jan 12, 2015 19:53:25 #
Strikes me if she put them on facebook she would pretty much make them public domain. (I don;t like Facebook)
Jan 13, 2015 00:00:20 #
dljen wrote:
The court of public opinion can often be the more cruel judge.
So true. :thumbdown:
Jan 13, 2015 00:00:46 #
dljen wrote:
The court of public opinion can often be the more cruel judge.
So true. :thumbdown:
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