Peeping tom gets paid for peeping & a judge says it’s OK

Peeping tom photographer gets paid for peeping.  And a  judge says it’s OK.

Judge Eileen Rakower tossed a lawsuit brought by two parents against a peeping tom photographer.  The parents sued  a Tribeca artist who snapped pictures of their children through their apartment windows . The photographer did it as part of a controversial exhibition theme.

Artist Arne Svenson photographed his Greenwich Street neighbors for an exhibit titled “The Neighbors.”

Making use of their floor to ceiling windows, he captured his innocent subjects engaged in a host of mundane activities.  He filmed daily activities  including  cleaning the floor to playing with their kids.

But controversy erupted after Svenson’s models learned that they were being photographed without their knowledge.  And, that the images were being exhibited and sold for up to $10,000 each.

So, Matthew and Martha Foster sued Svenson — who likened himself to a “bird-watcher”

“The value of artistic expression outweighs any sale that stems from the published photos,” Judge Rakower wrote.

Sources said that photos from the exhibit have sold briskly, One buyer, the  Harvard Business School,  snapped up one shot of a woman in a green dress cleaning her floor.

For more info to to:

http://www.ibtimes.com/arne-svenson-photographer-who-spied-tribeca-neighbors-wins-legal-battle-privacy-court-case-1374381

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Firenze Sage, Esq.   If  Harvard business school buys the peeper’s  shots, can one learn business acumen there?

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