Fulton County owns Trump mugshot

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As a general principle, the owner of a photo's copyright is the person (or entity) who takes that photo, not its subject. In federal criminal cases, the U.S. government is not permitted to own the copyright to booking photos, so they are considered in the public domain. Fulton County Georgia is state - not federal.

Will they sue him for all the money he made off it so far - and any future earnings?
 
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Has this question ever come up with any other mug shot in all of history?

We have reached a new level of TDS :D

As a general principle, the owner of a photo's copyright is the person (or entity) who takes that photo, not its subject. In federal criminal cases, the U.S. government is not permitted to own the copyright to booking photos, so they are considered in the public domain. Fulton County Georgia is state - not federal.
 
Mugshots are part of an inmates record and in the public domain. An individual's image or likeness remains the property of the person whose image or likeness it is. If Fulton County has a copyright, what's the copyright number?
 
As a general principle, the owner of a photo's copyright is the person (or entity) who takes that photo, not its subject. In federal criminal cases, the U.S. government is not permitted to own the copyright to booking photos, so they are considered in the public domain. Fulton County Georgia is state - not federal.
Oh....so if Fulton Co. says so, then it must be true.

They released the photos thinking it would be an embarrassment.....and it blew up in their faces.

Now they want to bring charges, or some other silly nonsense against Trump, for using the picture they spread all over the planet.
 
As a general principle, the owner of a photo's copyright is the person (or entity) who takes that photo, not its subject. In federal criminal cases, the U.S. government is not permitted to own the copyright to booking photos, so they are considered in the public domain. Fulton County Georgia is state - not federal.
Ohhh so you thought this up all on your own. You have no authority.
 
As a general principle, the copyright of a photo belongs to the person taking the photo. This is the paparazzi protection for photos they take. As long as those photos are taken in a public place. A booking room is not a public place. The taker of this photo is not protected by copyright.

To clear up further confusion, some jurisdictions give inmate records to data aggregators (we find anyone) and some are prohibited by local laws.
sorry but this fluff won't fly.
 
Oh....so if Fulton Co. says so, then it must be true.

They released the photos thinking it would be an embarrassment.....and it blew up in their faces.

Now they want to bring charges, or some other silly nonsense against Trump, for using the picture they spread all over the planet.
Fulton County didn't say that.
 
Can you legally use Trump’s mugshot on merchandise?
Spectrum News: Elizabeth Rosenblatt, the Oliver C. Schroeder Jr. Distinguished Research Scholar and associate director of the Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology and the Arts at the School of Law, said that copyright ownership of mugshots applies in most jurisdictions. Questions arose following the recent release of former President Donald Trump’s mugshot for his arrest for meddling in the 2020 election. “Whether the Fulton County Sheriff’s Department would decide to enforce its copyright is entirely up to them,” Rosenblatt said.

 
As a general principle, the owner of a photo's copyright is the person (or entity) who takes that photo, not its subject. In federal criminal cases, the U.S. government is not permitted to own the copyright to booking photos, so they are considered in the public domain. Fulton County Georgia is state - not federal.
And once they posted it publicly, they don’t own it.
 
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As a general principle, the owner of a photo's copyright is the person (or entity) who takes that photo, not its subject. In federal criminal cases, the U.S. government is not permitted to own the copyright to booking photos, so they are considered in the public domain. Fulton County Georgia is state - not federal.

Will they sue him for all the money he made off it so far - and any future earnings?

That's complete and total bullshit.

Unless Trump signed a model release, he owns the exclusive right to use that image for commercial gain.
 
As a general principle, the owner of a photo's copyright is the person (or entity) who takes that photo, not its subject. In federal criminal cases, the U.S. government is not permitted to own the copyright to booking photos, so they are considered in the public domain. Fulton County Georgia is state - not federal.
If that’s the case why do all photographers HAVE to get a release from the people who they photograph before they can publish or share them? While the photo itself may belong to the photographer, the image on the photo belongs to the photographed.
 

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