Shameful abuse of 9/11 footage

[DoYouEverWonder]

Feb 12, 2006

A budding filmmaker that FEMA found in the yellow pages used his taxpayer-funded video of the smoldering World Trade Center ruins in a documentary featuring topless women chatting about their breasts, a Daily News investigation has found.

Provided with unique access in an NYPD helicopter, Gregg Brown was flown by cops over the restricted air space of Ground Zero daily for eight months beginning on Sept. 15, 2001, capturing countless hours of grim video while snapping 30,000 photographs.

Red-faced officials at the city Department of Design & Construction, which oversaw the cleanup of Ground Zero, concede that the stunning, gut-wrenching material was supposed to belong to the people who paid for it — the citizens of New York and the nation. But Brown, who was ultimately paid up to $302,000 in federal 9/11 disaster recovery funds, refused to sign a prepared agreement ceding "title and ownership" to the city.

With the legal paperwork unsigned in late 2001, Brown was inexplicably allowed to keep shooting — and keep collecting big paychecks.


http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/390683p-331281c.html

[Canuckistanian]

1. This seems like a clear case of contract violation

Why would it be so difficult to sue him?

If the contract remains unsigned, then HE has no leg to stand on. This "photographer has ownership unless..." argument is ridiculous.

[rumpel]

2. any relation to the other Brown?

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. The singer or the FEMA disaster?

Are you referring to the full name or just the last?

[Robb]

4. The public interest will only be served

with pictures, or video clips. :eyes:

[Ian David]

5. Ground Zero Girls Gone Wild? What does this have to do with boobies? n/t

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. Maybe it was a commentary

on the boobs that were responsible for 9/11....