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.
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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