Carla Bruni wins damages for nude handbag | Oddly Enough | Reuters

Copyright Violation and the outright outrageous reproduction of an image that was taken years before and was unauthorized is now a "small blunder." Small blunder? WTF? I say put the SOB out of business, take his house and his children's houses. Maybe, just maybe, that'll get some attention. Assholes like that deserve to be forever remembered as the last straw.

Carla Bruni wins damages for nude handbag | Oddly Enough | Reuters: "The nude photo of Bruni-Sarkozy was taken in 1993, when she was a professional model. She had asked for 125,000 euros in damages from Pardon, a fashion chain in the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion which used it without her permission.

'The unauthorized use of the image of Carla Bruni caused her moral and economic damage,' a court in the island capital Saint Denis de la Reunion said on Thursday.

Bruni-Sarkozy's lawyers had indicated that she would donate any damages awarded to charity.

The founder and manager of the Pardon chain, Peter Mertes, said he would appeal because 40,000 euros seemed expensive to him for 'a small blunder.'"