Sunday, May 25, 2025, 15:06
For years, social networks have complicated the life of the paparazis, who see how the protagonists of the social chronicle are who publish their day to day without mediating magazines. It is the celebrities who decide what, when and how far tell their intimacy. In addition, there are also paradoxical situations in which the published snapshots are of professionals who are not remunerated or recognized by copyright. That is precisely what has led photographer Edwin Blanco and the Backgrid agency uses to sue Jennifer López.
The images in question are what the music star published on January 4, 2025, the night before the Golden Globes gala, when he attended the Amazon MGM Studios X Vanity Fair party at the Los Angeles Marmont bar in California. The plaintiffs claim that JLo’s publication on their social networks – in which it appears with a white leather coat, a lingerie dress and a Chanel bag – has advertising purposes, and indicate the absence of water brand or credits that correspond to them as copropiets of the photographs.
In this sense, Blanco and the Agency request financial compensation of up to $ 150,000 (just over $ 132,000) for each of the images. Taking into account that the singer published four on the social network X and five more on Instagram, the demand amounts to 1.35 million dollars (1.19 million euros). The lawyer of the plaintiffs, Peter Perkowski, stressed that “the unauthorized use of the images by Mrs. López is commercial, for self -promotion purposes. For example, Mrs. López used the images to highlight the designer of her clothes and jewels, taking advantage of the advertising of the event to promote her affiliations to the fashion world and her collaborations with brands.
This is not the first time that Jennifer López has to face an episode of these characteristics, nor is it the only famous that has had to face a demand for copyright for publishing photographs of herself. In 2019, JLo passed through the courts after climbing to his Instagram profile a snapshot with her partner then, athlete Alex Rodríguez, taken by a paparazi. «This previous litigation put Mrs. López in warning about the legal requirements and the possible consequences associated with the use of copyright protected images without proper authorization. In spite of this, Mrs. López has continued to get involved in similar behaviors, demonstrating an intentional contempt for Backgrid’s copyright through a pattern of conduct that undermines the rights of content creators, ”said Perkowski.
The demand also states that both the photographer and Backgrid contacted the artist after the publication of the photographs to reach an economic agreement. However, months later, the music star has not yet signed it, which has led them to move forward with legal measures.
Such as the Bronx diva, other celebrities such as Dua Lipa, Gigi Hadid or Khloé Kardashian have seen in situations of the same characteristics. In 2019, Gigi Hadid was sued by the Xclusive-Lee Inc. agency after sharing an image of his without permission from the photographer on Instagram. Although the publication was eliminated, the agency claimed copyright violation, but the case was dismissed because photography was not legally registered. For its part, in 2021, the Integral Images agency demanded Dua Lipa for publishing a photo of him at an airport without authorization. Subsequently, in 2022, photographer Robert Barbera filed another demand for an image of 2018. Barbera argued that Dua Lipa had benefited economically by sharing the photo on his Instagram account, focused on his professional promotion. Khloé Kardashian was sued in 2017 by the Xposure Photos agency after publishing an image of his leaving a restaurant in Miami. The agency requested $ 175,000 (almost 154,000 euros). In his case, he also eliminated the publication.
