Xposure sued, and in that case, the conduct appeared especially egregious because the copyright holder alleged that Kardashian or someone on her social media team scrubbed the image clean of copyright information before posting. In September 2016, Khloe Kardashian published a photo of herself on Instagram, the copyright for which was owned by Xposure Photos and licensed exclusively to the Daily Mail. Hadid is hardly the first celebrity to face a lawsuit over posting copyrighted photos of themselves to social media.
Indeed, X-clusive Lee alleges that Hadid has published at least 50 “uncredited photographs” on her Instagram account, many of which are reproduced in the complaint as exhibits in support of the company’s claims. As noted in the court filing, in 2017, Hadid faced a lawsuit from photographer Peter Cepeda, “nearly identical to the facts alleged in the present case,” in which Cepeda accused Hadid of copying and posting a copyrighted photograph of herself to her social media accounts without his permission. X-clusive Lee alleges that Hadid’s posting of the photo without permission was “willful and intentional” because she was well aware that doing so could bring her legal trouble. Hadid later deleted the photo from her Instagram account, which had nearly 44 million followers at the time, but not before it got 1.6 million likes, according to the complaint.
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