RSF could face bankrupcy
Reporters Without Borders claim that Cuba was behind a Paris court action that could bankrupt the press freedom organisation for using the world famous Korda portrait of Che Guevara without permission. Diana Diaz-Lopez, head of the Havana ballet and daughter of the late photographer, is seeking 1.14m euros in damages from the Paris-based group over posters that use the Korda image to criticise President Fidel Castro's civil liberties record. The legal battle started in June when RSF launched a poster campaign to dissuade tourists from visiting Cuba. It grafted the face of Korda's "Che" on to a picture of a French riot squad officer beating up a protester, with the caption, "Cuba: the world's biggest prison for journalists".
Source: Jo Johnson, Financial Times.
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