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To: Uncle Chip

This is a frivolous lawsuit which should result in AP having to pay legal expenses and punitive damages in a just legal system. However, I have little confidence of that.

If he looses I recommend that he repaint her outfit as an orange jumpsuit and call it satire.


51 posted on 01/24/2014 9:09:37 PM PST by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: unlearner
But I thought that it is virtually impossible for a "public figure" to sue for anything disparaging. IIRC, they used an actual photo of Falwell, and Flynt won based on the fact that it was a "parody". Totally protected by the First Amendment.

And who came to Flynt's defense? Scalia.

So if George says it was a "parody", isn't he in the clear?

BTW, does George own the rights to HIS image?

Many thousands of paintings, drawings, and even photographs have been made of him.

Can HE sue over each and every one?

69 posted on 01/24/2014 11:13:25 PM PST by boop (Liberal religion. No rules, just right!)
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