{"id":4877,"date":"2010-10-07T20:37:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T04:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/?p=4877"},"modified":"2010-10-07T20:37:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T04:37:56","slug":"music-news-dido-sued-astronaut-album-cover-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/music-news-dido-sued-astronaut-album-cover-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Music News: Dido Sued by Astronaut Album Cover Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Untitled-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4882\" title=\"Untitled-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Untitled-1-520x275.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bruce_McCandless_II\">Bruce McCandless II<\/a>, <\/strong>the first astronaut to make an untied or untethered &#8216;free flight&#8217; in space, is suing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/dido\">Dido<\/a> over the cover art for her 2008 album <strong>&#8216;Safe Trip Home&#8217;<\/strong> for using his picture without permission.<\/p>\n<p>The cover shows <strong>McCandless<\/strong> &#8216;free flying&#8217; in space, around 320 meters away from the cargo bay of the space shuttle <strong>Challenger<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In a complaint filed on September 30 in <strong>Los Angeles<\/strong>&#8216; federal court, <strong>McCandless<\/strong> said that he never gave permission for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/dido\">Dido<\/a> to use the 1984 photograph of him. Along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/dido\">Dido<\/a>, <strong>McCandless<\/strong> named <strong>Sony Music Entertainment<\/strong> and <strong>Getty Images Inc<\/strong> in the lawsuit. He is seeking unspecified damages, citing that the use of the image is an infringement of his persona.<\/p>\n<p>Dido is not the only artist facing a lawsuit for using images without permission. Remember the famous <strong>Contra<\/strong> Polaroid cover with a woman wearing a polo shirt? Well, she also realized her rights are being violated and sued the band.<\/p>\n<p>So boys and girls, what&#8217;s the moral lesson of the story?<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unified Manufacturing<\/strong>\u00a0is an L.A. -based one-stop-shop that offers very affordable CD\/DVD\/USB replication, custom printing, promotional products, warehousing and fulfillment and many more. If you need an Instant Quote on a project and you want FREE SHIPPING, simply\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/instant-quote\/\">CLICK HERE<\/a>.    \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce McCandless II, the first astronaut to make an untied or untethered &#8216;free flight&#8217; in space, is suing Dido over the cover art for her 2008 album &#8216;Safe Trip Home&#8217; for using his picture without permission. The cover shows McCandless &#8216;free flying&#8217; in space, around 320 meters away from the cargo bay of the space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-graphic-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}