At 23:10 +0000 12/8/04, Chris wrote:
Howard Said:
But how can you buy a property which is - presumably - visible from a public place and claim immunity from it being photographed? (A rhetorical question only!)
Sometimes the good guys win...the
unbelievable part of this is that the photographs were taken from the
air...where, unless she lives in a stealth mansion, anyone flying by
can see it...
Barbara Streisand sued the California Coastal Records Project, which took thousands of pictures of the California coastline intended to protect the state's shoreline. The photographs are made available free of charge to state and local governments, university researchers, conservation organizations, and others. Streisand sued because a picture of her Malibu estate (her mansion composed only 3% of one photo among thousands) was posted on the public interest organization's Web site. She sued for $50 million (five separate claims for $10 million each), but on May 10, 2004, Streisand was ordered to pay the people she sued $154,000 in legal fees they accrued defending against her ridiculous lawsuit
Jim
Baja Oregon
