A photographer is suing Gannett Media for as much as $34 million in damages after hundreds of its news publications allegedly used her image without permission.
Photographer Stephanie Campbell filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against major media company Gannett and more than 220 Gannett news outlets on Friday,In the lawsuit, Campbell alleges that hundreds of Gannett’s news titles published her photo of former NFL coach Katie Sowers without seeking the photographer’s permission.
Sowers’s position as San Francisco 49ers offensive assistant was widely publicized when she became the first female and openly gay coach in a Super Bowl., Campbell “was afforded unparalleled access to photograph Sowers at the moment she learned about her groundbreaking hire [and was] able to capture high quality, close-up photographs of Sowers’ reaction to the news and subsequent action shots of Sowers coaching.
In the court documents, the photographer says that the inclusion of her name alongside the unauthorized image constitutes an infringement in itself., Campbell is seeking damages of up to $150,000 for each alleged infringement, a sum that, if each supposedly infringing publication used the Sowers photo only once, could see the photographer winning $34 million.
The lawsuit also says that Campbell could alternatively agree to settle for profits Gannett made from use of the Sowers photo.for copyright infringement over the same image of Sowers. The photographer reportedly agreed to settle the case four months after filing the lawsuit although the terms of the settlement were not stated.
Gannett is the largest U.S. newspaper publisher as measured by total daily circulation. It owns the national newspaper
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