Wednesday 27 January 2021
AN event promoter from Tobago was found to have infringed the exclusive copyright rights of a local photographer who now lives in New York by using one of his photographs to advertise the Tobago Fashion Coda 4 event in 2016.
Justice Ricky Rahim ordered Donald Grant to compensate NY-based photographer Sean Drakes for infringing the latter’s copyright on the photograph of The Dying Swan Ras Nijinsky in Drag as Pavlova.
The quantum will be assessed by a High Court Master.
Drakes, who visits TT from time to time to document Carnival activities as part of his international portfolio of work, took the photograph of the Peter Minshall-designed costume on January 28, 2016, at the Kings and Queen of Carnival competition at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain.