Artist wins battle over Barbie

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2650329

Seven years ago when Tom Forsythe, an artist and photographer, was searching for a subject for a new project, he settled on Barbie -- producing a series of 78 photographic images of the wildly famous doll showing her nude, and sometimes posed provocatively, in or around various household appliances.

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After a lengthy legal tussle, which included a series of appeals, a federal judge late last week ruled that artists are allowed to play with dolls.