[rollei_list] Re: What good is a model release now?
- From: "John A. Lind" <jalind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:39:41 -0500
At 09:31 PM 2/9/2005, you wrote:
>Why, Jerry? I haven't lost a case yet ;-)
Sometimes it's not what is "fair" to "make someone whole" again . . . plus
legal fees . . . which is what many might think is deserving (at the
least). Without reading all the facts available, that amount smells to me
as if it contains significant "punitive" damages which are measured on an
entirely different scale . . . an amount sizeable enough to make the
defendant feel some pain of "punishment" . . . and one of the clews is the
posting here of it being 5% of the profit. Large corporations with very
deep pockets wouldn't even blink at $100k and would that give cause to
think twice about doing it again? Sometimes yes, but sadly many times
no. Go high enough into the rarified air of the wood-grained offices of
Fortune 500 corporations and it's all about money; nothing else matters
much. One might debate how "punitive" damages should be awarded/disbursed
. . . and whether they should go completely to the plaintiff . . . and I
think that question has never had a very satisfactory solution . . . and in
the absence of one it leaves the plaintiff as its recipient.
-- John
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