A judge awarded the huge sum to the photographer.
A company has been told to pay a photographer $1.2 million after it used his photo of a pigeon for over a decade without compensating him for it.
In 2019, photographer Fugnetti filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Bird B Gone, a company that sells spikes meant to repel birds., Fugnetti had claimed that Bird B Gone had continued to promote itself using a photograph of a pigeon in mid-flight that he had shot for the California-based company back in 1999.
The company even later applied “for a trademark over the flying pigeon image without the knowledge or consent of MIAD or Fugnetti.”reports that in 2017, an employee at Bird B Gone emailed Fugnetti to ask him when exactly he took the photograph so that it could complete the trademark registration.Fugnetti’s lawyers claim that “after receipt of the lawsuit, [Bird B Gone] destroyed all of the packaging featuring the flying pigeon image.
Fugnetti’s lawyers now represent Fugnetti’s daughter following the photographer’s “unexpected” death in 2019.
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