Legal Opinion
Steve Altman Photography v. United States
United States Court of Claims
Decided September 29, 1989No. 378-84 CPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RADER, Judge.
Mr. Steve Altman, plaintiff, is a professional photographer. In 1981, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) commissioned plaintiff to make a photographic record of its projects in the Caribbean Islands. After OPIC had published many of his photographs in its 1981 annual report, plaintiff requested return of all the color slides from his two Caribbean trips. According to plaintiff, OPIC did not return 600 of these slides. Plaintiff seeks damages for these purportedly lost slides.
Plaintiff also claims that OPIC infringed his copyrights. The copyright…
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