[Slings and Arrows]

Cue Nelson Muntz...

[monkeyshine]

I am glad they are getting their butts handed to them, but, it is too bad for the people who have settled already. They can’t back out of their agreements.

[muawiyah]

Doggone, somebody finally turned to that TSA picture showing an agent on the job patting down somebody inside a government owned facility.

Without a RELEASE from TSA and the agent and the private individual this picture had no copyright valid for commercial use.

Obviously the Righthaven operation put that picture into play as a commercial venture.

End of story.

It's a bit more complex in the way the lawyers handled it, but Righthaven not only didn't have a valid copyright, the people they purchaed the rights from didn't have a valid copyright either, and that individual being patted down is probably owed damages for the failure to get his release.

Just like to remind folks that I made predictions about which way Righthaven cases were going the second I saw that photo!

Those predictions jsut came true.