Unconfirmed “tweets” online this morning indicated that the parties have asked the judge for a little more time, until the auspicious Friday the 13th of November. Meanwhile, consistent with his earlier decisions to swat away those who wish to intervene or otherwise delay the consideration of the settlement, last week Judge Denny Chin denied the motions by a variety of individual photographers and photography organizations. Chin writes, “the proposed settlement does not concern the rights to their pictoral materials and it binds them in no way. The movants are free to initiate their own litigation, and to invest the time, […]
