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NEW YORK (AP) - The children of a photographer who took famous pictures of Marilyn Monroe did not violate the star's rights by selling pictures without her heirs' consent, a federal judge has ruled.
U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon said in a decision dated Wednesday and made public Friday that a company led by three children of the late photographer, Sam Shaw, did not violate the rights of Monroe's estate by using pictures of her on T-shirts marketed and sold in Indiana.
Millions of dollars were believed to be at stake, in part because Shaw's photographs include some of the most famous pictures of Monroe, including ones of her standing over a subway grate, her skirt blowing upward, for the 1955 film "The Seven Year Itch."
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