LeBron, Hadid Photo Posts Highlight Celebrity Copyright War
Howard Shire, a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group of Troutman Pepper, was quoted in the October 10, 2023 Bloomberg Law article, " LeBron, Hadid Photo Posts Highlight Celebrity Copyright War."
The details of those settlements are generally kept private once the litigation is closed. But sometimes plaintiffs will seek more than "just whatever royalty would be posted," said Howard Shire, a Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP partner.
If the social media page is used to advertise and promote products, the photographer may seek "some sort of share or all of the proceeds that somebody is being paid to endorse or advertise the product on which the infringing photo appeared," Shire said.
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In the meantime, Uribe said, some celebrities have hired their own photographers to take the types of photos they've been sued for infringing as a way of beating the photographers at their own game.
"Once you're burned once you don't want to be burned again," Shire said.