| HuffPo Use Of Jon Hamm
Crotch Photo Triggers Suit From Copyright
Troll in SDNY
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
July 7 –
In 2013 the Huffington Post
used a photo of Jon Hamm with
his crotch obscured by a box
saying, Image Loading.
Now
notorious copyright attorney
Richard Liebowitz, recently
slammed by U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of
New York Judge Jesse M.
Furman, sued.
On July 7
SDNY Judge Ronnie Abrams held
a proceeding in the matter.
Inner City Press covered
it.
Liebowitz,
perhaps wisely, let James H.
Freeman do the argument for
him. And it was a highbrow
argument, about what
constitutes satire and thus
fair use, and what doesn't.
The defendant's
lawyer argued that the box
made it a commentary; Freeman
said that real Jon Hamm fans
would want to license even the
doctored picture, and so he
needed discovery.
Judge
Abrams reserved judgment.
The case is
Schwartzwald v. Oath Inc.,
19-cv-9938 (Abrams)
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