(September 10, 2023 at 5:37 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Funny thing about the mugshot - it seems that, in the US, the owner of a booking photo is the agency that took it, not the arrestee. Trump appears to have violated copyright laws by hawking the image.
I was so shocked to learn this, I had to lay down and yell for someone to bring me a sandwich.
Boru
I'm not so sure. I know that federal photographs, unless classified for reasons of security, are automatically and immediately in the public domain. I think that's the case as well with lesser-jurisdiction photos too.
