ouch.  I don't think they'll be steeling photos again!

Judge must have been on drugs.

She wanted $58k for her images which I think was over the top.

And then he calculated an actual major selling point between the images and the revenue of $12million.

Hey I am for the photographer, but the result is a sham.

The actual profit from the houses sold was probably about $1.2 million. Marketing and advertising could lay a claim to about 7% of that. AND that is only if she could prove that is was the images and only the images that created the sale.

BUT for me the worst thing is this mob went out of business. So now around 70 poor suckers are out of work. Most of them probably on minimum wages or just getting by.

The judge really failed in his public interest and justice obligations here.

The photographer should be paid. But not some ridiculous amount of money that causes grief to innocent third parties.

FOR THE RECORD. There isn't a great deal of money in building houses, regardless of where you live. You are lucky to make on average 3% net.

FOR THE RECORD. There isn't a great deal of money in building houses, regardless of where you live. You are lucky to make on average 3% net.

Very wrong , in the part of Croatia where I live , you can build a house outside the city with all expenses for about 200 000�  the land value for that house is about 150 000 and sell it for way over million , even before is built.

Residential apartments in center are something like  3000� for m2  and when you sum all expenses the companies are investing between 1000 - 1200� for building  1 m2.

And you can only buy them if you have connections , pay in advance , so the marketing is not the problem at all.



But I'm speaking only about the situation  here where I live , you may be right for other places.





 

Very wrong , in the part of Croatia where I live , you can build a house outside the city with all expenses for about 200 000€  the land value for that house is about 150 000 and sell it for way over million , even before is built.
 

That's not building homes. That's speculation ...

I'm not a lawyer but I play one on microstock.

This photographer will never collect a dime. The corporate defendants are out of business and the other named, personally, will most certainly file bankruptcy given the amount involved if indeed an appeal to the original judgment is not possible. In my prior business life I've held many sizable judgments that turned out to be worth approximately zero, less attorney fees.

Yep. Zero minus attorney fees = out of pocket.
The last judgment that proved noncollectable did provide one satisfying result. The two guys (father and son) that stiffed me ended up in jail. No money for me. But justice was served in other ways.