Bill Clinton, Eatery At Odds Over Chelsea Photo

[Squatch]

On Tuesday night, President Bill Clinton demanded that a Manhattan restaurant remove a picture of his daughter Chelsea.

The picture has been up for years, but now it's posing a problem.

"She doesn't want to be involved with advertising for the store," Cremin says. "That's up to her. It's her God given right, no?"

For whatever reason, former first daughter Chelsea Clinton wants this photo taken down from inside Osso Buco in Greenwich Village. She's so serious she has recruited her father, former President Bill Clinton, and a team lawyers to see that it's done.

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[shain from kane]

1. "Chelsea Hotel on the phone, wants its name back." "Joni Mitchell on the phone, wants her

song back."

[gatorboy]

7. Chelsea Hotel uses Chelsea's image to sell rooms?

Who knew!

[rurallib]

2. I was thinking about Chelsea yesterday

Most of us want our kids to do better than we did. That is a part of the American dream, the upward mobility.
Well, for Chelsea, if both of your parents have been president, what can you do to exceed what they did?

[jebediah]

4. Be an acutal agent of change? nt

[rateyes]

9. Anything other than being POTUS.

Look at the idiot that's in there, now. All of us excel over him.

[MannyGoldstein]

10. Go To Iraq - Win A Medal Of Honor

It'll happen any day now.

[SoCalDem]

3. Sorry, Chelsea

It's unfortunate that you have famous parents, but MANY places display photos of "famous people" who have been in their establishment..

It might be better to just sign the damned picture..and maybe write on it.." Food...so-so
Service- lacking.. I recommend " name another place here).."

[frazzled]

12. I'm not so sure anyone can use your likeness without consent

In films, for example, you have to get written clearance from anyone who may appear in the footage.

If Chelsea has not consented (or objects to) having her likeness used in a restaurant, for advetising purposes, she may be on strong grounds.

[ccpup]

13. absolutely! n/t

[Captain Hilts]

27. Technically, she's not the public figure her folks are, so I think she has a case. nt

[ccpup]

5. the Owner says that Chelsea

is like a "daughter" to him? Um, I think they should DEFINITELY take the picture down. And, besides, the food there just isn't that good. It's kind of one of those places a tourist might stumble into for an "authentic" Italian meal and walk out with a belly full of heavy-as-lead meatballs that were drowning in a kinda-think-it-might-be tomato sauce.

[rinsd]

6. John Kerry cuts in line (nt)

[DURHAM D]

8. Go Bill. Go Chelsea.

Looks like the restaurant owner called the media for a little free publicity - what a pig.

Take the damn thing down if she wants it down. Her mother wasn't running for President when it went up. Now she is and Chels doesn't want him to give him free publicity.

Maybe she doesn't like the food.

This would piss me off.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. Wow! Did she get some bad anchovies on her pizza?

[rucky]

14. This is a tricky one...

Did she pose for the photo?

Are there pictures of people all over the wall? Did she understand at the time it would go on the wall?

Has the restaurant benefited from displaying the photo? How would you show the financial gain tied to use of the photo?

What is the complaint excactly? What laws are being violated? What are the damages they're seeking?

Have other public figures been successful in similar lawsuits?

Has anything even been filed?

[Demit]

17. Hint: read the story.

[rucky]

21. Some of the facts are there...

but if she posed for it, and knew it would go up on the wall, i'd say it's a done deal. implied consent.

[gateley]

15. I've always thought the Clintons (not my favorite people) did an excellent

job with Chelsea considering the environment she grew up in and all she went through with her parents' problems being made public.

But now it seems as though she's following in her parents' footsteps by calling in the artillery (dad) when something is not to her liking. Like the Clinton/GQ strong arming.

I certainly understand her feelings and they should be respected. But if the owner is a jerk, just blow it off -- otherwise you'll come across as a privileged spoiled brat. Which she kind of did in this instance.

[gatorboy]

18. It's her image. She has every right to say who can use it.

You're starting to sound like a right winger there...No offense.

[Demit]

16. Any of us would have the right to do the same thing, for whatever our reasons, and

we wouldn't have to justify them to anyone. So the restaurant got five years of publicity out of it. They can be happy with that.

[asjr]

19. I do not know the history of the photograph and

how it got there in the first place, but if she wants it down, take it down. Chelsea is the best thing that happened to the Clintons. And I doubt Bill "demanded" the picture be taken down. The media are experts at making mountains out of molehills.

[monmouth]

20. Why would Chelsea have to call Daddy for this. Big girl. Just walk in

and tell the guy to take it down. End of story...Geez.

[whoneedstickets]

22. I think she's had some 'work' done and may not want the 'before' pictures

so prominently displayed. http://www.goodplasticsurgery.com/archives/004880.html

I'd chock this up to an understandable insecurity having taken so much public abuse for her looks as a teen.

[gatorboy]

23. So she's going to get rid of every "before" picture out there?

You're kidding right? She is going to be a busy girl. :P

[AngryAmish]

24. I would like to know who the FUCK these people are.

When Chelsea Clinton tells you to do something YOU FUCKING DO IT!!!!!!

Who the FUCK are these assholes to ignore a direct order from Chelsea.

ASSHOLES

Destroy them!

[Cha]

25. Maybe she doesn't want to

be associated with a place that hangs the ghoul's pic?

[gatorboy]

26. More than likely the $1,000 pizza.

[Cha]

28. I know I wouldn't want my

pic anywhere near a place who thought it was okay to hang that fascist's creep pic..but that's just me.

$1,000 pizza? I hope they were auctioning it off to send the money to Dafur.