{"id":282315,"date":"2019-10-23T18:33:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T00:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1085809"},"modified":"2019-10-23T18:33:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T00:33:21","slug":"emily-ratajkowski-is-being-sued-for-150000-over-an-instagram-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/emily-ratajkowski-is-being-sued-for-150000-over-an-instagram-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Ratajkowski Is Being Sued for $150,000 Over an Instagram Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.658137154555\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201953\/rs_634x1024-190603163214-634-emily-ratajkowski-cfda-awards-me-6319.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Emily Ratajkowski, 2019 CFDA Awards, Red Carpet Fashion\" alt=\"Emily Ratajkowski, 2019 CFDA Awards, Red Carpet Fashion\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Matt Baron\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"26.472193074502\">\n<p>They say a picture is worth a thousand words&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But in<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/emily_ratajkowski\"> Emily Ratajkowski<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s case, her pictures are literally worth that and then some. The 28-year-old supermodel is the latest celeb to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1073121\/why-gigi-hadid-is-being-sued-for-posting-a-photo-of-ex-zayn-malik\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">slapped with a lawsuit over a photo<\/a> that she shared on social media.&nbsp;She and her company, Emrata Holdings Inc., are being sued by photographer and professional paparazzi, <strong>Robert O&#8217;Neil<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In the court documents, obtained by E! News, O&#8217;Neil filed the lawsuit against Ratajkowski in the Southern District of New York, citing copyright infringement. He claims the<em> Gone Girl<\/em> actress didn&#8217;t license&nbsp;his photograph nor did she get permission or consent from him to post it to her Instagram page.<\/p>\n<p>He is suing for damages up to $150,000. Plus, he&#8217;s also asking&nbsp;for all of the&nbsp;profits that&nbsp;she earned off of his work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The snapshot in question, is one of the 28-year-old model holding a bouquet of flowers that are cleverly covering her face&nbsp;during a&nbsp;New York City&nbsp;outing.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"7\">\n<p>Robert alleges the <em>Cruise<\/em> star posted his picture to her Instagram Story, which has now expired since her initial upload.&nbsp;According to the suit, she&nbsp;shared the candid shot and captioned her post,&nbsp;&#8220;Mood Forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"44\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31.829787234043\">\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time the photographer has sued a celebrity. If his name sounds familiar, it&#8217;s because&nbsp;last month he hit<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/gigi_hadid\"> Gigi Hadid<\/a><\/strong> with a lawsuit over an image she&nbsp;posted of her ex-boyfriend,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/zayn_malik\">Zayn Malik<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This action arises out of Defendant&#8217;s unauthorized reproduction and public display of a copyrighted photograph of English singer and songwriter Zayn Malik, owned and registered by O&#8217;Neil, a New York based professional photographer,&#8221; the court documents read, which were obtained by E! News at the time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gigi Hadid is not, and has never been, licensed or otherwise authorized to reproduce, publicly display, distribute and\/or use the Photograph,&#8221; the documents stated.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, just last week <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/justin_bieber\">Justin Bieber<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1083364\/justin-bieber-is-being-sued-for-posting-a-photo-of-himself\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">faced the same issue and was being sued<\/a>&nbsp;over sharing an image of himself, that he didn&#8217;t own the rights to. However, the pop star took to social media to state that he made peace with photographer,&nbsp;<strong>Robert Barbera<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Photo taken by @papculture!&#8221; Bieber wrote on Instagram&nbsp;in a since-deleted post. &#8220;Stop all the fuss we worked it out! He&#8217;s a good dude!!!!! What do you guys think album and another tour?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"4\">\n<p>At this time, Emily has yet to publicly address the lawsuit.&nbsp;E! News has reached out to&nbsp;the model&#8217;s team for comment.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1085809\/emily-ratajkowski-is-being-sued-for-150-000-over-an-instagram-photo?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Baron\/Shutterstock They say a picture is worth a thousand words&#8230; But in Emily Ratajkowski&#8216;s case, her pictures are literally worth that and then some. The 28-year-old supermodel is the latest celeb to be slapped with a lawsuit over a photo that she shared on social media.&nbsp;She and her company, Emrata Holdings Inc., are being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-15 21:56:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}