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del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 04:47 16/11/2007 U.S. court rules against Orthodox Jew in privacy case By The Associated Press Tags: Orthodox Jews, New York  An Orthodox Jew who had his photo taken without his knowledge could not claim his civil rights were violated - even though his religion forbids it - because he did not take court action within a year of its display, New York state's highest court ruled Thursday. The Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Philip-Lorca diCorcia, who photographed Erno Nussenzweig and displayed the image in 2001 in the show Heads at the Pace Gallery in Manhattan. The show featured images of 17 people photographed without their knowledge in New York, Tokyo, Calcutta and Mexico City. Advertisement Nearly four years after the show, in March 2005, Nussenzweig first learned that his picture had been taken and was used in an exhibition and sold to the public at $20,000 to $30,000 each. Nussenzweig, 80, filed suit shortly thereafter, arguing that diCorcia had violated his statutory right to privacy according to civil rights law and that his image was used for commerce. New York's right-to-privacy laws prohibit the use of a person's likeness for commercial purposes without the person's permission. But if the likeness is deemed to be art, the commerce restrictions do not apply. Attorneys for diCorcia argued that the law requires any claim of a civil rights violation to be filed within one year from the initial display of the image - not within a year of when Nussenzweig first learned of it. The court agreed. Nussenzweig's lawyer, Jay Goldberg, has said his client's religion forbids reproducing his image by photography or other means because of the belief in the Second Commandment's prohibition against graven images. Calls to Goldberg and diCorcia's attorney, Lawrence Barth, were not immediately returned Thursday Bookmark to del.icio.us Not quite Balfour Arab-Israeli Balad party to vote on whether to accept Israel as a Jewish state. Jews saving the world A documentary examines Judaism's connection to vegetarianism and activism.   1.   THEY USED HIS IMAGE TO MAKE BIG BUCKS! THEY MUST BE PUNISHED, BUT 01:28  |  VOICE)))))))) 16/11/07   2.   US COURT RULES AGAINST ORTHODOX JEW 02:51  |  SOL ROSENGARTEN 16/11/07   3.   He`s entitled to a share of the proceeds 03:33  |  * BEN JABO 16/11/07   4.   pictures of the Lubavicher rebbe are everywhere 03:54  |  Shelley 16/11/07   5.   He`s Not Entitled to Anything 04:01  |  MIKE 16/11/07   6.   Of course he`s right! 05:29  |  Steve G 16/11/07   7.   THERE IS ALWAYS THE U.S. SUPREME COURT 06:34  |  * BEN JABO 16/11/07   8.   #7 - BEN JABO You Don`t Know What You`re Talking About 01:11  |  MIKE 17/11/07   9.   #8 Mike, I hate to admit it 03:05  |  * BEN JABO 17/11/07   10.   #9 - Ben Jabo 18:12  |  MIKE 17/11/07   11.   #10 MIKE 04:25  |  * BEN JABO 19/11/07   12.   #11 - Ben Jabo - Wrong Again 05:17  |  MIKE 19/11/07   13.   #12 2ND TRY MIKE - You`re still very wrong 18:14  |  * BEN JABO 19/11/07   14.   #13 - Ben jabo - Still Wrong 19:03  |  MIKE 19/11/07   15.   #14 2ND TRY MIKE - you are all wet 13:25  |  * BEN JABO 20/11/07   16.   #15 - Ben Jabo - You`re Mixing Up the issues 20:24  |  MIKE 20/11/07   17.   #16 MIKE - It is really simple, try and understand 20:45  |  * BEN JABO 20/11/07

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