Legal Opinion
Harney v. Sony Pictures Television, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 7, 2013No. 11-1760PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
On a sunny April day in 2007, freelancer Donald Harney snapped a photograph (“the Photo”) of a blond girl in a pink coat riding piggyback on her father’s shoulders as they emerged from a Palm Sunday service in the Beacon Hill section of Boston. Just over a year later, the pair in the Photo became a national media sensation. The father, soon-to-be revealed as a German citizen who had assumed the name Clark Rockefeller, had abducted his daughter during a parental visit and was being sought by law enforcement authorities. Harney’s father-daughter photo was used in an FBI…
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