Perez Hilton Celebrity Blog Sued
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Once a blogger becomes famous and his/her blog is making tons of money, the lawsuits join in. Perez Hilton, a celebrity gossip blog involved in a bitter $7.5 million lawsuit with a paparazzi photo agency. Reason being that he used or source images from the internet without permission.
Perez Hilton does sound like Paris Hilton.
Tags: Blog, Blog Lawsuit, Celebrity Blog, Paparazzi, Paris Hilton, Perez, Perez HiltonHe usually sources the pictures from the internet, a practice not liked by the media companies. In one case, Hilton had somehow obtained and posted the photos even before the actual owners had a chance to put them on its own website.
Now X17, a paparazzi photo agency, has decided to slap a $7.5 million lawsuit on Perez alleging that he has used 51 photos without permission, payment or credit.
Hilton is not willing to give up and says that he is fighting for the entire blogger industry. Will be a very interesting case to watch. - Digital Inspiration
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December 17th, 2006Good news. He’s a pig-headed thief who had this coming to him. I hope he loses his case and gets thrown in prison or forced to pay the $7.2 million or something. Plus, most of his site’s trash. It’s not a celeb gossip blog but rather a celeb bash blog. He’s very rude, crude and outrageously obnoxious (a lot of celeb gossip authors are in a sense, but he crosses the line WAY too much). He actually takes pictures of celeb’s kids and babies and writes junk about them, saying they’re ugly, etc. He just has a rotten attitude and needs to get over himself and pull his head out of his buttocks. Hopefully this experience will help him tame down a bit and lighten up, but I doubt it.
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December 17th, 2006If he doesn’t do something before the court date and it does go to court, he’ll lose. He’s not parodying the people, he’s presenting copyrighted photos on his site without paying for them or being given permission as you need to do by law. He is trying to say that Fair Use permits him to use without permission or payment, pictures that others have taken. Fair Use allows for people to use parts of a work when analyzing or criticizing the work itself, but he isn’t analyzing the work (the picture), he’s writing about the people in the pictures, which is a huge difference.
The four factors of Fair Use:
1. The Transformative Factor: The Purpose and Character of Your Use - perez 0, x17 1
2. The Nature of the Copyrighted Work - perez 0, x17 2 (as I understand it, perezhilton.com acquired and used some photos before they could be sold, thus making them useless to others)
3. The Amount and Substantiality of the Portion Taken - perez 0, x17 3
4. The Effect of the Use Upon the Potential Market - perez 0, x17 4
Total score - perez 0, x17 4 PEREZ LOSES!
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/index.html
Blogueiro Processado por Utilização de Fotografias - Dudu Tomaselli
December 18th, 2006[...] O blogueiro americano Perez Hilton está sendo processado pela agência de fotografia X17 de Los Angeles por utilização indevida de 51 fotografias, incluindo fotos de Katie Holmes grávida, Kevin Federline e Britney Spears. [...]