PAPARAZZI AND COPYRIGHT

With the always bigger role Instagram is taking in the fashion industry, the cases related to IP are obviously increasing. Once of these comes becomes models are now not only working during fashion shows or advertising campaigns, but also as influencers on instragram, advertising through the social the brands that engage them. TO do so, however, the models are more and more frequnetly using photos taken by paparazzi which remain,by all effects, the owners of the copyright related to the photo. The most recent cases are photographers Timur Missive and Carlos Villa who have sued respectively Bella Hadid and Rihanna's company Fenty for posting pictures taken by them without authorization nor credits. While we wait for the US federal Court to decide, the picture have been taken down


02/27/2020 | Copyright