A company has been told to pay a photographer $1.2 million after it used his photo of a pigeon for over a decade without compensating him for it.
In 2019, photographer Fugnetti filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Bird B Gone, a company that sells spikes meant to repel birds., Fugnetti had claimed that Bird B Gone had continued to promote itself using a photograph of a pigeon in mid-flight that he had shot for the California-based company back in 1999.
The company even later applied “for a trademark over the flying pigeon image without the knowledge or consent of MIAD or Fugnetti.”reports that in 2017, an employee at Bird B Gone emailed Fugnetti to ask him when exactly he took the photograph so that it could complete the trademark registration.Fugnetti’s lawyers claim that “after receipt of the lawsuit, [Bird B Gone] destroyed all of the packaging featuring the flying pigeon image.
Fugnetti’s lawyers now represent Fugnetti’s daughter following the photographer’s “unexpected” death in 2019.
What’s up with the quotes around “unexpected?” That might be better attributed to somebody.
मेरो नी फोटो कोई युज गर न हो, लास्टै गरीब भइयो :(