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Paparazzi v. celebrities copyright lawsuits – the last American trend!

It is common to spot groups of paparazzi taking pictures at celebrities, fashion icons and influencers on the streets not only during fashion weeks and events, but also in their day-to-day lives. At the same time, it has become increasingly frequent in the United States for paparazzi to file copyright infringement lawsuits against celebrities for sharing those pictures on the Internet, i.e. on social media platforms, without the photographers’ “permission or consent” or without paying them any licence fee.

The latest to be sued by a paparazzi for copyright infringement is no less than Victoria Beckham, but the list includes both celebrities like Jennifer Lopez, Ariana Grande, Gigi and Bella Hadid and brands such as Marc Jacobs and Versace. In general, these cases tended to end with out-of-court settlements that led celebrities to pay steep monetary damages. This created a precedent and many other lawsuits, which are still pending, followed, in the last few months.

Top 5 takeaways on digital transformation from DLA Piper Digital Ring

The DLA Piper Digital Ring event with 180+ attendees was a massive event on digital transformation and here are my to 5 takeaways.

As anticipated, my law firm, DLA Piper, ran a very interesting event together with the Corriere della Sera, the largest Italian newspaper, at the Italian stock exchange, Borsa Italiana, on digital transformation in the banking, insurance, hospitality and e-commerce sectors. I summarise below my main takeaways, but there is definitely no room to cover all the interesting insights arose during the discussion.

#Adv or not #Adv? This is the question.

On 26 June 2018, the Italian Advertising Authority (IAP) took a step further on online advertising and issued one of its first decisions based on the Digital Chart and art. 7 of the Advertising Self-Regulatory Code (the “Code”). The case was about some Instagram Stories and a picture published by the Italian singer Fedez on …

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