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To: LindyBill who wrote (93032)	12/31/2004 4:51:33 AM
From: Bill Ulrich	Respond to of 793782

If the USN SEAL pics were obtained by an embedded, an AP contractor or some other journalistic means, you'd probably be right. In the appropriation method described by the complaint, plaintiffs have a good case. I'm one up on ya on the Peterson case discussed at its very beginning. <vbg> This one won't go "full boat" and AP will offer an acceptable settlement within 3-5 motions. There's a much wider barn door left open here that a talented lawyer can exploit even from "model release" and licensing standpoints, than if it'd been a standard network embedded/journalism issue. "Once they were published on the net, they were fair game. I don't see the suit going anywhere."