DMCA and Copyright Management Information
Posted on June 28th, 2011
Paul Murphy was hired to take a photograph of Craig Carton and Ray Rossi, two hosts of a popular radio show in New Jersey. The photo depicted the DJs naked behind a radio call-letter sign. Murphy retained the copyright to the photograph. An employee of the radio station scanned Murphy’s image from a magazine article and posted it to the station’s website, and to another website, myspacetv.com. The scan cropped off the magazine’s title tag and Murphy’s gutter credit. The station’s site invited visitors to alter the image and submit their edits to the station. The station posted 26 edits, though it never received Murphy’s permission to republish the image. Murphy found out about this and demanded that the infringement cease. The DJs got…
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