Nice knockers beckon for a closer examination.

BALTIMORE – A magazine that published a photograph of a woman baring her breasts at a pig roast for motorcycle enthusiasts did not intrude on her privacy, a federal judge has ruled.

Tonya Barnhart sued Paisano Publications LLC, publisher of Easyriders magazine, after it ran the picture of her in its March 2005 issue, claiming unreasonable intrusion, false light invasion of privacy and appropriation of her likeness.

U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz granted summary judgment to Paisano last week.

Barnhart’s display of her breasts “cannot reasonably be said to have constituted a private act,” Motz wrote. “She exposed herself at an outdoor fundraising event open to any members of the public who purchased a ticket.”

Her claim that the image presented her in a false light also failed because she never claimed that the picture distorted “her true appearance,” but only that it created the impression she was the sort of person who would consent to posing topless for a magazine, Motz ruled.

But to add salt to the wound:

Finally, Motz held that Barnhart’s claim for appropriation of her likeness failed because her image has no commercial value.

Legalese aside, couldn’t he have phrased this in a nicer way? :-)