I’m something of a Trump supporter, but I have a problem with some of the purported backstory on this. The photographer owns the photo, the model owns her image, the company that paid for the photo acquired rights to use the photo or photos containing her image in a manner defined under contract, and both get paid when it’s used. That’s how it works.
For this photo to have been used in a manner detrimental to Melania Trump, there was a contract violation, of that I’m sure. But, on the other hand, if these photos were viewed as problematic, Donald Trump could have bought out all rights to them and prevented this.
I’m beginning to think someone just pulled it off the internet or scanned a page from the magazine, at this point. Not legal, they’re going to be sued.
It was actually unofficial doctrine ala Atwater that the legalities of such stunts matter a lot less if you win and get to do things like pick judges. By the time it works through the legal system the election is long over.
the photos of themselves are not problematic I thought they were artful and tasteful ... she an attractive woman
the photos used modified with a caption as a method to attack the subject were were not
a simple question to any man.. if anybody took a photo that was out there of your wife and put some kind of caption on it on to imply something then published it as some kind of method to attack you personally....
what should be your reaction?....
you’re not going to go to the wife and say well honey I’m sorry they did that to you it’s just politics
I’ve dated two different women that did some kind of professional modeling so there’s public photos of them...
and one was a very hardcore Christian girl that had to be very selective about her photos
but still they’re not paying for photos of a woman just standing around in a nice high collar dress
this goes to both men and women out there on every side if you’ve ever bought a GQ or women a Cosmopolitan you got no room to start criticizing the models