stackyFACTSOwning your own likeness seems logical, but copyright law prioritizes the person holding the camera.
Owning your own likeness seems logical, but copyright law prioritizes the person holding the camera. When aggressive photographers snap a picture of a famous actor walking down the street, the photographer owns the image entirely. If that same celebrity finds the picture online and posts it to their own social media feed without permission, the paparazzi can, and routinely do, hit them with massive infringement lawsuits for unauthorized use of their own face.
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