{"id":50762,"date":"2016-09-30T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ability-fl-prod.internetbrands.com\/ability-legal\/supreme\/legal-commentary\/can-marcia-cross-sue-to-keep-the-nude-photos-of-the-desperate-housewife-out-of-the-public-eye-a-case-of-infringement-or-entrepreneurship.html"},"modified":"2016-09-30T11:27:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T16:27:00","slug":"can-marcia-cross-sue-to-keep-the-nude-photos-of-the-desperate-housewife-out-of-the-public-eye-a-case-of-infringement-or-entrepreneurship","status":"publish","type":"supreme","link":"https:\/\/supreme.findlaw.com\/legal-commentary\/can-marcia-cross-sue-to-keep-the-nude-photos-of-the-desperate-housewife-out-of-the-public-eye-a-case-of-infringement-or-entrepreneurship.html","title":{"rendered":"Can Marcia Cross Sue to Keep the Nude Photos of the “Desperate Housewife” Out of the Public Eye? A Case of Infringement or Entrepreneurship?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Can Marcia Cross Sue to Keep the Nude Photos of the “Desperate Housewife” Out of the Public Eye? A Case of Infringement or Entrepreneurship?<\/h1><\/td>\n <\/tr>\n

By CECILY DEANE MAK<\/h2><\/a><\/td>\n <\/tr>\n

Friday, Nov. 10, 2006<\/td>\n\n <\/tr>\n <\/table>\n

Talk about desperate. It just so happens that Marcia Cross had a lapse of judgment and threw a bundle of nude photos of herself in the trash recently. And as soon as an employee of the hauler discovered the goods, he didn’t waste any time hiring celebrity-smut peddler David Hans Schmidt to sell the shots to the highest bidder. <\/p> \n

Unsurprisingly, Ms. Cross and her husband, Tom Mahoney, got their attorneys involved and are trying to stop her most revealing debut yet, by threatening legal claims.<\/p> \n

What Cross was doing with 200 nude photos of herself, we may never know; why they “accidentally” ended up in her trash is even more of a mystery. At the moment, her primary concern is whether she’ll be able to keep them out of the public eye.<\/p>

The legal issue will turn on whether the couple has either personal or intellectual property rights in the photos; if they don’t, Schmidt can sell them to the highest bidder. <\/p> \n<\/span>\n\n \n
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