Rapper/sports activities discuss present analyst Cam’ron is studying the laborious approach about copyright infringement when utilizing photographs of your self you don’t personal.
Noticed on Digital Music Information, the Diplomats co-founder and co-host of the It Is What It Is podcast has to open up his pockets and pay photographer Djamilla Cochran $51,000.
A decide is ordering Cam’ron to pay Cochran for utilizing her iconic picture that options the Harlem rapper donning a pink fur coat and headband whereas utilizing a pink flip cellphone with out permission.
Per Digital Music Information:
Since Cam’ron, whose authorized title is Cameron Giles, by no means a lot as responded to the lawsuit, not to mention supplied up any defenses, Choose William Martini dominated simply in Cochran’s favor. In his ruling, Choose Martini ordered Cam’ron to pay $40,530 in “statutory damages,” along with repaying the $10,691 that it price Cochran to convey the lawsuit within the first place.
“The court docket finds {that a} statutory damages award of seven occasions the licensing charge is adequate to compensate plaintiff for the infringement of her copyright and to discourage future infringements by punishing the defendants,” wrote the decide.
Cochran captured the picture in 2003 at a New York style present, and it’s considered one of Hip-Hop’s most iconic pictures. Per the lawsuit, Cam’ron, born Cameron Giles, used the picture on merch like jewellery, t-shirts, and different merchandise.
Now, instantly, you may be questioning how it’s doable that the “Oh Boy” crafter is being sued for utilizing a photograph of himself; properly, the {photograph} belongs to the one that took the image.
Cam’ron is just not the primary celeb to face this dilemma; Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, and Dua Lipa have additionally confronted comparable lawsuits.
