WOMAN SUES CHIPOTLE FOR UNLICENSED PHOTO USE

A California woman is suing Chipotle for $2.2 billion – not a typo – equivalent to the company’s profits over a nine-year period, for allegedly using a photograph of her for marketing purposes without her permission. Leah Caldwell claims she refused to sign a release given to her by a photographer after he snapped pictures of her at the chain’s Denver-area restaurant in 2006. Eight years later, in 2014, she was floored to find her picture at an Orlando restaurant, as well as in other California outlets of the burrito chain. Caldwell alleges that the image had been edited to add texture to her hair, people in the background and bottles to the foreground, which she claims has put a false light upon her character associated with consuming alcoholic beverages. She says that the company used the photo to make profits and she should therefore be entitled to those funds – approximately $2.2 billion.
* Holy guacamole!
* $2.2 billion. That seems fair.
* After all, without her picture, Chipotle would have gone under by now.
* They had to add people to the picture ’cause she’s such a jerk no one will eat with her.
* Uhm … don’t tell Little Miss Litigious I said that, okay?
* Or should I say Little Miss No-Texture Frumpy Hair Litigious?
* Don’t tell her I said that either.
* It’s another outbreak at Chipotle – an outbreak of entitlement.
* What ever happened to going, “Hey – that’s me! That’s pretty cool.”
* By now, Chipotle’s gotta be thinking, “Maybe we should switch to the pack and ship business or something.”
* I don’t know about you but I love it when a big corporation slips up like this.
* In a legal sense – on this one issue – she has them by the balls. And that’s an actual legal term.
* You can definitely tell she’s trying to amp it up with the BS about being associated with alcohol. That’s her lawyer talking there.
* Still, they did do her wrong. I don’t think she has 2.2 billion dollars coming but she should get something.