裸照現身購物袋 法第一夫人狀告商家

French first lady sues over 'nude Carla' bags
French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is taking a clothing company to court to stop it from selling a shopping bag featuring a photo of the former supermodel in the nude, a lawyer said Friday.
The white canvas bags went on sale this month on the French island of Reunion, produced by local clothing firm Pardon which plans to sell them throughout France soon, said Pardon manager Peter Mertes.
A court in the Reunion capital of Saint-Denis on Monday heard the request from President Nicolas Sarkozy's wife to ban sales of the bag.
"This bag makes use of Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy's image without her consent and for commercial gain," said Iqbal Akhoun, a spokesman in Saint-Denis for the first lady's lawyer Thierry Herzog.
The 40-year-old former supermodel is also seeking 125,000 euros (US$167,000) in damages from Pardon, which she would donate to charity, he added.
The bag features a black-and-white picture of Bruni-Sarkozy taken from a famous 1993 photo of the model standing upright in the nude that fetched US$91,000 at a New York auction earlier this year.
A talk bubble on the bag next to the first lady reads "My boyfriend should have bought me Pardon". The item sells for three euros.
Pardon boss Mertes told reporters his company had manufactured 10,000 'Carla' bags and that most of them were gifts to clients who bought other products.
Mertes said he was entitled to use the photo because Bruni-Sarkozy is a public figure.
The case comes two weeks after a Paris appeals court ordered that a Sarkozy voodoo doll be sold with a label describing it as offensive to the president, but refused to ban the novelty.
That decision overturned a lower court ruling that found the doll sold with needles and an instruction manual fell "within the authorised limits of free expression and the right to humour."
法國第一夫人卡拉•布呂尼-薩科奇做模特時拍攝的一張裸照被一家制衣公司印在購物袋上，據律師於上周五介紹，布呂尼已將這家公司告上法庭，要求其停止銷售這批產品。
這款印有第一夫人裸照的白色帆布包由位於法國留尼旺島的帕爾頓（Pardon）制衣公司“出品”。據公司經理彼得•莫特斯介紹，公司已於本月在當地推出這款包，而且打算不久後在全國銷售。
留尼旺島首府聖德尼地方法院於本周一開庭審理此案，聽取布呂尼要求禁止銷售此產品的請求。
布呂尼的律師蒂埃裏•赫爾佐格在聖德尼的發言人伊克巴爾·阿克霍恩說：“帕爾頓公司未經第一夫人本人許可，將她的照片用於商業目的。”
據他介紹，現年40歲的布呂尼向求帕爾頓公司索賠12.5萬歐元（合16.7萬美元），並打算把這筆錢捐給慈善機構。
帕爾頓公司盜用的這張黑白裸照是布呂尼1993年拍攝的，當時她還是個模特，照片上的布呂尼站在那裏一絲不掛。在今年早些時候紐約的一次拍賣會上，這張裸照以9.1萬美元的價格拍出。
裸照旁還印有一句廣告：“喜歡我的人就應該買帕爾頓。”這款購物袋每個售價3歐元。
帕爾頓公司經理莫特斯在接受記者采訪時稱，公司共生產了一萬個“卡拉”購物袋，其中大多數都是隨產品附贈。
莫特斯辯解說，布呂尼是公眾人物，所以公司有權使用她的照片。
兩周前，一款以薩科奇總統為原型的“巫毒娃娃”現身巴黎，當地一家上訴法院裁決這款玩具加上標簽，表示它冒犯了總統，但是並沒有對這款玩具下達禁售令。
這推翻了此前低一級法院有關玩具制造“應在言論自由和幽默權所允許的範圍之內”的裁決。“巫毒娃娃”在銷售時還有配有針和一本說明書。