A European perspective on paparazzi photographs of celebrities and lawsuits against celebrities over the posting of photographs of themselves
Over the past few months several media outlets have been reporting on a series of copyright lawsuits filed in the US against celebrities over their social media (in particular: Instagram) feeds [Katposts by Hayleigh here , here , and here ] . Whilst some of these lawsuits concerned fairly straightforward issues, that is the publication of third-party photographs portraying third parties [eg, Versace publishing a photograph of Jennifer Lopez wearing Versace: here ; or super-model Gigi Hadid posting a picture of her boyfriend Zayn Malik : here ] , others are potentially more intriguing in that they relate to the publication by celebrities of photographs of themselves. The first of this series of recent lawsuits is the one concerning the publication, by Gigi Hadid on her Instagram account, of this photograph of herself taken by a paparazzo: The complaint was eventually dismissed becaus...