Posted on 04/10/2014 2:55:24 PM PDT by SMGFan
She’s earned a notorious reputation for being one of Hollywood’s most difficult actresses to work with – and now Katherine Heigl won’t play nice with Duane Reade either.
The gorgeous, but grumpy, “Grey’s Anatomy” star slapped the pharmacy giant with a $6 million-plus lawsuit Wednesday alleging she was photographed without consent by paparazzi outside one of its Manhattan stores — and that Duane Reade then brazenly misused the image for its own advertising
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She hasn’t looked like that in over a decade.
Not guilty, not even close.
Excellent!
Hmm. Interesting. So I can photograph you in public, sell your photo to anyone I want to advertise anything they want--slap it up on billboards across the country selling Obamacare, say--and I don't have to have your permission or pay you anything.
It might surprise you that the law takes a somewhat different view.
Yes and no. (I used to do advertising for a living).
If I take a picture down a crowded street, and the focus is on the street, and using magnifying glass you are able to find your face - tough bananas.
If I zoom in on your face and make you the focus of the picture - better have a model release or the user will pay!
As long as the persons’ presence is ‘incidental’ to the picture, anything taken on public property is fair game.
any thread with “katherine heigl” and “images of” gets my clicks.
Thankfully, she just keeps getting better.
She needs the money...thought I read somewhere recently that she was not in a good financial position, but probably still better than most.
Photography isn’t a crime, and a public place is a public place.
Privately commissioned photos are something else entirely. . .
She was The Christmas Nazi in the TV series "Roswell".
She's in the right in this case.
I’m thinking her and Kate Gosselin were separated at birth.
I guess I think she is a queen and is very impressed with herself. Just another Hollywood diva bimbo.
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