Michael Dweck gets $100K from Denim Co. for illegal use of iconic “Montauk” image

NEW YORK, N.Y.- A denim designer must pay photographer Michael Dweck $100,000 for using his photograph of a nude female surfer to sell blue jeans, a federal judge ruled. Dweck sued designer Diana Amadi and her unincorporated Malibu Denim Co. in March 2010, for using his photograph “Sonya, Poles, Montauk, NY 2002″ for “advertising, promotion and sales of its jeans” since 2009. Dweck’s photograph, which depicts a young, naked woman running with a surfboard to the ocean, appeared in his first [...]