Despite receiving a 1.2 million dollar verdict in a copyright infringement suit involving photos taken after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, additional requests by the prevailing-litigant photographer have not fared as well. The District Court for the Southern District of New York has denied photographer Daniel Morel’s request that Agence France Presse (“AFP”) and Getty Images, the counterclaim defendants, pay his costs and attorneys’ fees. The court also fixed the sum of the lien charged by Morel’s former counsel. See Agence France Presse v. Morel, No. 10-cv-2730 (AJN) (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 23, 2015).
