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Court Revives Copyright Lawsuit Over Annie Leibovitz's ‘Star Wars’ Photos

PetaPixel·Pesala Bandara·24 days ago
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Annie Leibovitz photographed by Robert Scoble | Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) An appeals court has revived Annie Leibovitz’s agency’s copyright lawsuit against an online magazine over its use of her photographs from the Star Wars movie set. On Tuesday, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a lower court wrongly dismissed the lawsuit brought by licensing company Great Bowery Inc. against online outlet Consequence Sound LLC based on a lower court’s misunderstanding of copyright law. The dispute centers on a group of Star Wars cast photographs taken by Leibovitz for Vanity Fair . In 2014, Leibovitz signed an “Artist Agreement” with Trunk Archive, a business operated by Great Bowery, granting the company the “exclusive worldwide right to license, market, and promote” certain images from the shoot. In 2022, Great Bowery sued online outlet Consequence in federal court, alleging the publication improperly posted some of the photographs on its website.…

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