Thumpalumpacus
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.
According to Case Western:
Boru
(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.
According to Case Western:
Quote:: Elizabeth Rosenblatt, the Oliver C. Schroeder Jr. Distinguished Research Scholar and associate director of the Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology and the Arts at the School of Law, said that copyright ownership of mugshots applies in most jurisdictions. Questions arose following the recent release of former President Donald Trump’s mugshot for his arrest for meddling in the 2020 election. “Whether the Fulton County Sheriff’s Department would decide to enforce its copyright is entirely up to them,” Rosenblatt said.
Boru
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