Capturing Fame: Navigating Copyright In Celebrity Photographs

There was a time when celebrities had to wait a whole day, or sometimes even weeks to see their own photo clicked by a photographer for a magazine or a newspaper. They had no other mediums, except for the magazine or the newspaper where the photo would be published. However, times have changed and so have practices. Magazines and newspapers are no longer the only mediums through which photographs of celebrities can be viewed. With the advent of technology and social media, photographers are not exclusively dependent on print magazines and newspapers to publish photos of celebrities, and celebrities too, aren't exclusively dependent on such mediums to publicize themselves.

Technology and social media, having changed how media works, has also brought with it several new contentions and issues with regard to copyright of content posted on social media. One such issue is the question of whether celebrities infringe the copyright of the photographers by posting photos