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It's litterally black and white in intellectual property laws.

• matz1 8y ago
  Not really, different judge may interpret the law differently.
  • cthalupa 8y ago
    You're literally just saying things, and saying them doesn't make this true. Copyright law on this sort of thing is incredibly straightforward and completely settled. This isn't like recreating the likeness of someone, including their tattoos (another story popular in the past day on HN), this is clear cut commercial usage of someone else's copyrighted work, and his tolerance of non-commercial usage by the person photographed doesn't have any impact whatsoever on whether or not a different entity has the ability to use it to promote their clothing line. This is an incredibly open and shut case with tens of thousands (probably hundreds of thousands, actually) of cases worth of clear cut precedent.
    • matz1 8y ago
      You think so, but good lawyer can always make any seemingly straight forward case to be not so straight forward.