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Astronaut Sues Dido For Album Cover

Posted by samzenpus on from the get-me-off-that-thing dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Astronaut Bruce McCandless is suing Dido for her album cover that uses a famous NASA photograph of a tiny, tiny, tiny McCandless floating in space. McCandless doesn't own the copyright on the photo, so he's claiming it's a violation of his publicity rights ... except that he's so tiny in the photo, it's not like anyone's going to recognize him."

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  1. Re:Probably won't get the first claim at least by JasterBobaMereel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's a picture of a spacesuit .... McCandless happened to be the occupant but it is impossible to tell that from the photo ....

    If I take a picture of a 747 can all the occupants sue me?

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  2. Pay back? by Richard+W.M.+Jones · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe he should pay back all the US tax dollars it cost to get him there in the first place? Then we can talk about publicity rights ...

    Rich.

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