Old yearbook photos lead to lawsuit against Classmates.com
Wright Noel for the plaintiff SEATTLE (Legal Newsline) – Classmates.com faces a class action lawsuit in Seattle federal court that says it is using photographs of people from yearbooks without their permission. Plaintiff Barbara Knapke filed her case through lawyers at Bursor & Fisher and Carson Noel on March 2. It alleges PeopleConnect Inc. has wrongly profited by using photographs of former students. “Classmates provides free access to some of the personal information in its database to drive users to purchase its two paid products – reprinted yearbooks tha...
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