Alberto Korda to get what he wanted in his photos. Korda was a photographer for the Cuban newspaper "Revolución" when he produced on March 5, 1960, the iconic image of Che Guevara that became a worldwide symbol of revolution and rebellion. He never received any royalties for the image, because Castro did not recognize the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. In 2000, he sued Smirnoff (Lowe Lintas) over the use of the image in advertisement. Commenting on the illicit use of his photograph, the artist said, "As a supporter of the ideals for which Che Guevara died,
Dezső Korda Dezső Korda Dezső Korda () (8 January 1864 – 1 April 1919) was a mechanical engineer born in Kisbér, Hungary. Korda finished his education in 1885 at the Budapest, in "Royal Joseph Technical University" (present-day Budapest University of Technology and Economics). After that he worked as electrical engineer in France and Switzerland. During the First World War Korda was a lecturer at ETH Zurich for wireless telegraphy and high frequency machines. He invented the variable capacitor with air dielectric, and received in Germany a patent for invention on 13 December 1893. He was awarded the French Legion of Honour in