 That is, a person of public interest or equally an unknown person who is implicated in a public matter cannot claim image rights.Consequently, anyone whose photograph was incidental to a photo of some matter will be treated as part of the background and will not be able to claim their rights were violated.In 1987, Gilbert Duclos, a photographer for "Éditions Vice-Versa" took a photograph of a teenaged Pascale Claude Aubry resting on the steps of a building by a public street in Montreal.