HARNEY v. SONY PICTURES TELEVISION, INC.

No. 11-1760.

704 F.3d 173 (2013)

Donald A. HARNEY, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. SONY PICTURES TELEVISION, INC., and A & E Television Networks, LLC, Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

January 7, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew D. Epstein , with whom Barker, Epstein & Loscocco and Keith E. Toms were on brief, for appellant.

Bruce P. Keller , with whom Michael J. Beam and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP were on brief, for appellees.

Before TORRUELLA, LIPEZ, and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.


LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

On a sunny April day in 2007, freelancer Donald Harney snapped a photograph ("the Photo") of a blond girl in a pink coat riding piggyback on her father's shoulders as they emerged from a Palm Sunday service in the Beacon Hill section of Boston. Just over a year later, the pair in the Photo became a national media sensation. The father, soon-to-be revealed as a German citizen who had assumed the name Clark Rockefeller, had abducted his daughter...

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