Model sued for posting photo of herself on Instagram

I don't really understand why this is a story, especially one on HN. Photographers own their photos, not their subjects. This is hardly novel.

She needs to say that here makeup or clothing choice is her intellectual property and they now owe her money.

Shot by a paparazzi, so she didn't authorize the paparazzi to take a photo, she was not a "modeling" just walking in an airport

Dua Lipa is a musician.

&gt; It is seeking $150,000 (£108,000) damages and has asked for a jury trial.<p>...<p>&gt; Lipa posted the photo to her Instagram account on 7 February 2019, about four days after it was taken.<p>...<p>&gt; Integral Images had applied to register copyright for the images, and the request was granted on 20 February 2021 - after Lipa&#x27;s Instagram post - according to records from the US Copyright Office.<p>They might have a hard time proving damages. Normally, a plaintiff would ask for statutory damages, which range from $750-$30000 per work infringed, or up to $150000 for willful infringement.<p>However, statutory damages (and attorney fees) are not available for infringement before registration unless registration occurred within 3 months of the first publication of the work.<p>It sounds like registration was more like a year after first publication, and infringement was a year before registration.<p>If that timeline is correct then to get $150k damages the plaintiff will have to show <i>actual</i> damages in that amount. I&#x27;m skeptical that they can do so.

I think this is fair. Photography is art, musicians are public figures&#x2F;fixtures.<p>Dia lipa is a business that profits from her image. If someone takes a photo in a public space of that image, it’s the photographers property and not the business’s.

Any friends here want to take a picture of me so I can post it and you can sue me and we can both get lots of free publicity before dropping the case?<p>The beeb is waiting.