[NEEDS ID] A few randoms I found
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John_8581
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You're dealing with Estate and Trust law, as well as copyrighted material.Ah well, back to square one. I'm surprised that a photo taken by a Penthouse photographer could be so hard to track down.
Sun1 ...
... is a Bob Guccione picture from Penthouse. I can't remember the model's name.
With Penthouse, if the pictures were taken by Bob Guccione, then they refer back to his Estate and to the magazine. His Estate can either grant the authorization of viewing of his pictures or not. Most times, viewing isn't allowed and they get archived.
A similar issue happened with J. Stephen Hicks. The noted and esteemed Penthouse photographer was allowed to take many unnamed unpublished Penthouse photo galleries that Stephen Hicks had photographed. Several hundred pictures. Maybe close to a thousand. He was allowed to take those pictures when he started up his digitaldesire.com website. He was then allowed to put first his DDG (digital dreamgirls) and then later his DD (digital desire) logos onto those copyrighted and trademarked Penthouse magazine pictures. He enjoyed an exclusive lifetime benefit of having those pictures on his website. However, when Mr. Hicks died in February 2013, the digital desire website as well as his Estate had to go through a range of about fifty to seventy-five thousand pictures and log them as inventory as part of the Hicks Estate. Not all of them were of adult female models. Many of them were landscapes and nature. Animals and wildlife as well. The ones shot by J. Stephen Hicks were marked as "Hicks Photo and the copyright year 2013."
With those several hundred pictures granted access by the Robert Guccione Estate and to Penthouse magazine ... they had to be returned .. Mark Lit, one of Hicks photographers at digital desire, had to return them back to the Robert Guccione Estate and to the magazine. They had to be taken off the digital desire website.
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