A distinction of 3 days was important to identifying whether a monetary preparation workplace broke federal copyright law when it utilized a photo from an Australian industrial professional photographer’s Flickr site in a post.
The complainant, Alex Proimos, took legal action against Marotta Wealth Management in Might 2022 over a picture of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia published on Flickr.com in between 2011 and 2013. Marotta utilized the picture in a post on Dec. 17, 2019, simply prior to Proimos signing up the picture with the U.S. Copyright Workplace Dec. 20, 2019, according to an order submitted last month by U.S. District Judge Norman K. Moon of the Western District of Virginia.