Findlaw reports that U.S.A. publishers Playboy Enterprises Inc. are due inward courtroom this morn to press criminal charges against the possessor of Voici, a French women's weekly that printed miniatures of Playboy pages featuring the actresses Daryl Hannah and Shannen Doherty. Voici publisher Prisma Presse and primary executive Axel Ganz accept been summoned to a preliminary hearing to appear upward accusations of "counterfeiting past times publication or reproduction", a courtroom official said. Prisma's legal director, Berard Mirepoix, said Playboy had likewise filed for euro 400,000 inward damages after Voici used the images inward its press review.
What has Voici actually done? In its half dozen Oct resultant it ran page reproductions, mensuration iii inches past times two, from a Playboy photo shoot alongside Hannah, 43, whose celluloid credits make from 1980s sci-fi classic "Blade Runner" to "Kill Bill”. Entitled "Hannah from Heaven", the Playboy series shows the grin actress inward a diversity of poses, sporting a span of pinkish roller boots together with rattling fiddling else. The next month, when Playboy's American edition published photos of Shannen Doherty ("Charmed" together with "Beverly Hills, 90210"), Voici once i time again carried scaled-down highlights. Prisma said they were baffled past times Playboy's reaction to what they come across every bit gratis publicity for the one-half century-old adult magazine.
"They felt we'd damaged their draw organisation together with that because we'd shown their photos, people wouldn't purchase their magazine afterward," Voici editor Hedi Dahmani is reported every bit saying, "but if I were a immature human being together with I noticed inward the press review that Daryl Hannah was appearing naked inward Playboy this month, I'd desire to become purchase it". Prisma argues that using images from other publications inward press reviews is mutual practise amid newspapers together with magazines ― including Playboy.
is curious to know how this dispute volition end. The French (and indeed the French courts) are non currently known for their dearest of Americans. On the other hand, they are simply nearly the staunchest protectors of authors’ rights together with copyright interests on the planet, which is why he tips Playboy, that undeserving exploiter of woman someone flesh together with manlike someone weakness for it, against the local publication.
The French: what’s sexy …. Moulin Rouge, Folies Bergere, Bridget Bardot
… together with what’s not: French toilets, Gauloises, frogs’ legs and escargots
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