Section 106 of the American Copyright law grants “a bundle of exclusive rights to the owner of the copyright,” including the rights “to publish, copy, and distribute the owners’ copyrighted work”. It is a well-settled law that photographic images are subjected to copyright. a photographer’s right to copyright their artistic work. In these intersections, the current copyright laws are in favor of the paparazzo i.e. The biggest paradox about these paparazzi is that the recent copyright cases highlighting an interesting intersection of two significant tenets of law : a celebrity’s right of publicity in their own image and a photographer’s right to copyright their artistic work. There is a rise in this trend where the paparazzi are contesting legal battle against celebrities for uploading their own photographs in social media. The Paparazzi are photographers who follow famous people around, hoping to take interesting or shocking photographs of them so that they can sell to a newspaper. the celebrities are sued by the Paparazzi. In the majority of cases, there is a common link i.e. have been sued for copyright infringement. Earlier too, many celebrities such as Gigi Hadid, Liam Hemsworth, Khloe Kardashian, etc. This is not the first time a celebrity has been sued for uploading his/her own images.
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In 2017, Lopez uploaded her photographs on Instagram after which the suit has been filed for using photographs without license or permission.
In the latest case, Singer-Actress Jennifer Lopez has been sued by a photographer for copyright infringement. In the Entertainment Industry, disputes related to copyright infringement are very common but there are certain extraordinary cases where the celebrity is sued for copyright infringement and that too for uploading his/her own images in social media. We are pleased to bring our next guest post by Gaurav Chourasia who is currently a 3 rd-year law student at Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur and is keenly interested in IPR, Media & Entertainment laws, and Sports laws.