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Copyright - It's The Pitts

gossip spider web log Gawker has got itself into a spot of bother COPYRIGHT - IT'S THE PITTS
The Observer reports that the New York-based media/gossip spider web log Gawker has got itself into a spot of bother. Gawker posted a film of the newborn babe of Brad Pitt in addition to Angelina Jolie (unattractively dubbed the ‘Brangelina’) which seems to accept been sourced from individual taking a film of the front end encompass of Hello! magazine on a mobile band at roughly signal during the distribution procedure of the magazine. Hello!, which paid the Pitts £1.9m for the rights to let on photos of the baby, was non best pleased, in addition to sent Gawker a missive of the alphabet pointing out that the Great Britain police line on fair role of copyright photos is a lot stricter than that inwards the US, in addition to that Gawker’s role would non gibe inside it. As a result, Gawker barred its site to Great Britain users, merely has straightaway replaced the Hello! encompass amongst the encompass of a US-based magazine, the People.

says that it’s telling that this was pursued every bit a copyright claim, rather than a breach of confidence claim – the motivation hither is financial, rather than privacy-based (though to endure fair to the Pitts, they are reported to accept donated their fee to charity).

Read the correspondence betwixt Gawker in addition to the lawyers here.

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