Author Topic: ‘Bowl of Skittles’ Photographer Sues Trump For Copyright Infringement  (Read 422 times)

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Offline ABX

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Trump's media team should be smarter than this. You can't just grab an image you like and use it any way you want like this. That's why you pay companies like Getty licensing rights.

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“Skittles photographer” is suing Donald Trump for copyright infringement after Trump used the Skittles photograph in an anti-immigration campaign without the photographer’s permission.

David Kittos, a refugee-turned-photographer based in the UK, took a photograph of a bowl of Skittles candy. In September, Kittos discovered that Donald Trump Jr had used the Skittles picture in a campaign graphic about the “Syrian refugee problem”. But Trump did not have permission to use Kittos’ Skittles photograph. .....

http://www.brightgram.com/bowl-of-skittles-photographer-sues-trump-for-copyright-infringement/