The Chronicle reports on the status of the Streisand vs. CaliforniaCoastline.org lawsuit (about which I’ve written before):
Singer Barbra Streisand has been ordered to pay the legal fees of an amateur photographer who defeated a $10 million lawsuit she filed over a picture of her Malibu mansion posted on his Web site.
Streisand actually lost the suit back in December — I’d missed the news. But I’m gratified it went this way; I disagreed with her claim.
I do understand the desire for privacy; that’s one of the reasons I moved out into the sticks. If I had $10M to buy a chunk of coastline, I’d probably do it. I like to think I wouldn’t sue californiacoastline.org if they took an aerial picture of it, but maybe the cost of having $10M to blow on a house is losing touch with reality.
Anyway, in sympathy for and solidarity with Barbra, I’ll post an aerial photo of my own home. I’m somewhere in the middle; see the red arrow. Barbra — if you’d like to commiserate, call me this weekend. You have the new number, right?
(Bim took this aerial photo. He has a really tall tripod. The questionable color correction is my own doing.)