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Paparazzo Claims 'Iron Man' Robbed Him
Photographers watermarked image left/Same photo used on prop newspaper
A photographer from LA is claiming that his above photo was used without permission in the new Iron Man movie. Ronnie Adams, currently employed at JFX paparazzi agency, is suing Paramount and Marvel over copyright infringement for an image featured on the front page of a mock newspaper being read by Robert Downey Jr. (he plays the main character Tony Stark). Adams shot several photos from outside the closed set's chain-link fence of the Iron Man fully costumed. He then published those watermarked images to IESB.net. Although Paramount couldn't convince the site to take the image down, it did contact the spineless hosting company who pulled the plug on the entire website for 16 hours. The studio later acknowledged it was wrong and offered compensation for the site's downtime. In a final fuck you to the photog, "the picture showed up on the front page of a newspaper used as a prop in the Iron Man movie and in a publicity photo" a year later. Still from the movie of the superhero reading the potentially illegal newspaper after the jump.
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by ANIMAL on June 25, 2008
Comments (2)
I find that pretty funny.
First the dude snaps a picture (which is not illegal unless he tresspassed) of the Iron Man costume prototype and pissed off the movies people.
And now he sues them for using the very picture.
Posted by Iron Man costume | June 26, 2008 9:42 AM
That's funny. I remember those photos when they came out before anyone knew what the Iron Man was really going to look like. So funny I didn't even notice the connection before.
Dan
Iron Man Movie
Posted by Dan | June 26, 2008 11:05 AM