He can’t get a job; he’s in debt and needs $. He’s trying to make an income via painting. He just needs someone to explain the rules of copyrighted photographs to him, and he’d be okay.
When he gets his Kel-Tec back, he should put it up for auction.
The rules are there. More like he needs a good attorney. This isn’t new legal territory. It’s been well covered over the years. At the same time the AP photographer was taking his picture, dozens of other news agencies where filming it and have the contextually identical picture. If the picture was used editorially, then Zimmerman has even a stronger case because then it would have been presented to the public contextually as opinion.
News is a whole different beast than say a macro photographer that catches a stunning picture of nature.
I slept at Holiday Inn last night so I’m pretty sure I’m right.