Intellectual Property,
Entertainment & Sports
Aug. 14, 2019
In role reversal, celebrities must now defend against paparazzi lawsuits
Seeing a quick way to make a bunch of bucks, the paparazzi are suing celebrities to squeeze every penny out of these impromptu pictures. The photographers are armed with the long-standing rule that copyright law gives exclusive rights to the person behind the camera, not the subject of the photo.
I. Neel Chatterjee
Partner
Goodwin Procter LLP
Email: nchatterjee@goodwinlaw.com
Neel is a partner in the firm's Intellectual Property Litigation Practice. An internationally recognized technology litigator and trial lawyer, Neel has a proven track record of wins in high profile hard-to-win technology cases. His cases often break new ground in undefined areas of the law and are regularly on the cutting edge of the most important new technologies. His clients have included Microsoft, Oracle, eBay, Facebook, Synopsys, NVIDIA, LinkedIn and many others. Neel has been recognized as a top IP litigator and trailblazer by multiple publications and directories.
Who doesn't flip cringe-worthy celebrity Kodak moments in tabloids while waiting in the grocery checkout line? Burned into our contemporary consciousness are memories like a newly bald Brittney Spears charging an umbrella into a photographer's windshield as he filmed her infamous meltdown. Even legal blows, like the $550,000 settlement that Jennifer Anniston won against the paparazzo who snapped her tanning topless have inched on cliché. But now, in an ironic shift, i...
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