| War Photographer Sued
Agence France-Presse For Stealing
Photos, AFP Wants Portuguese Law
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 30 – War photographer
Leong Francisco Paulo sued
Agence France-Presse for
stealing his photographs from
Libya, Syria, Ukraine and
elsewhere.
On
September 19, 2022, the case
was re-assigned to new U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Jennifer L. Rochin, and
Leong filed opposition to
AFP's motion to dismiss (and
send the case to Portugal).
Leong
submitted a declaration,
spotted in the docket by Inner
City Press that day, that he
filed in the US "because I was
able to find a lawyer in the
US that could take my case on
contingency."
He noted
that the AFP employee who
terminated him was Patrick
Rahir, AFP's Bureau Chief in
Madrid, not Lisbon.
On December 30,
AFP and Getty filed with the
assigned Magistrate Judge
Sarah L. Cave to argue again
for forum non conveniens,
citing and distinguishing the
Guidi case against a hotel
where Americans were killed by
an Egyptian gunmen while
dining. They insist that
Portuguese and not US law
apply.
The case is
Paolo v. Agence France-Presse,
21-cv-11209 (Rochon).
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