----- Original Message ----- > The story is a fantasy. > > The TV station KUTV is in Utah and is owned by CBS, not in California nor > owned by Rupert Murdock. > > The 82 million settlement is ridiculous as is the photographer not being > allowed to settle out of court for a lessor amount. > > The name of the photographer not being "released" is bogus because the > legal action would be a matter of public record. > > The amount of 82 million dollars awarded in a tort case involving a > copyright dispute would have been newsworthy world wide. > > The story as posted to this list makes a good read and should give any > photographer a warm and fuzzy feeling... for about five minutes. > > Dave Dave, Fantasy or not, the station mentioned was K.T.V.U., not K.U.T.V. (watch out for those letter transpositions). KTVU is in Oakland, California, and is now a Fox Network station, therefore is a Rupert Murdock station. I, too, wonder how the settlement jumped from 80,000 to 8 million to 80 million (in the same paragraph, even), how how this didn't make much of a ripple in the news media. Stephen -- This email was brought to you by GNS2000.com http://www.gns2000.com
