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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.
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Judge rules police raid on media house unconstitutional
Wednesday 13 January 2021
THE police raid on a media house in March last year has been deemed unconstitutional by the court.
Justice Frank Seepersad held on Wednesday that the two search warrants obtained by the police for the media house in search of information which could lead them to a journalist’s source were “plainly irregular,” unlawful and unconstitutional, as they disproportionally infringed on the media house’s rights to freedom of the press.
“The decision to issue the warrants failed to strike the required balance between the interest to investigate the summary offence of ‘tipping off’ on the one hand and the right to press freedom as well as the right of the journalist who authored the articles to protect the confidentiality of her source on the other,” he said.