Larry Sinclair has taken legal action and filed a complaint in Civil and Criminal Federal Court in Minnesota. Here is Larry Sinclair’s statement:
“UPDATED 8-6-08 @ 3:34 PM CDT GoDaddy.com has been given notice of both a Civil and Criminal Complaint being filed against them in Minnesota Federal Court over their involvement in the use of photographs that I am the sole owner of and I have not given permission to be used on the GoDaddy.com servers. Furthermore the web site known as mitch and nan and one Pinnacle Properties of Little Rock, Arkansas and the owners Tom and Lynne DeBoth are also named as Defendants for “allegedly” selling photographs they do not have the legal right to sell. GoDaddy.com the server for BarackObama.com and other’s was served today with copyright infringement notice under the DMCA. GoDaddy.com has refused to enforce the law on sites hosted on its servers in the past. GoDaddy is put on notice to remove all photographs and other material from its servers that are the sole property on mine and which is being used in direct violation of the law and without permission.”
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