X17 Sues PerezHilton.com For 7.5 mil cause he stole their photos.
 

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X17online.com Sues PerezHilton.com For Copyright Infringement
Dec 1, 2006


Yes, it's finally happened - after ignoring countless cease and desist notices from numerous photo agencies and media outlets, Mario Lavandeira, a.k.a. Perez Hilton, has been sued in federal court for copyright infringement by X17, Hollywood's largest celebrity photo agency.
X17 contends that Lavandeira, the owner and operator of the celebrity gossip blog PerezHilton.com and the self-styled "Queen of All Media," has knowingly and willfully used X17's images on his blog without permission from the agency, thereby violating federal law. Lavandeira's actions have caused substantial damage to X17's business in the form of diversion of trade, loss of profits, injury to goodwill and reputation, and the dilution of the value of its rights.

In court papers filed today, X17, the owners of X17online.com, seek over $7.5 million in damages for Lavandeira's infringing activities.

like he will care, that would be a months pay for him lol, well maybe not a month, but he makes some serious money from advertisers on that blog of his.

i wonder how much he actually makes from the blog...

although couldn't he argue its satire seeing as he draws cocks on almost every picture?

I wonder what the settlement will be.

I'd be interested in knowing how much that site pulls in too

Not true. I happen to know that he makes very little off of the ads on that site (it's in the low xxx,xxx per year) This will hurt him.

oh shit..and I steal all my celebrity pics off perezhilton..I better lie low for a while I guess :uhoh

Awesome!!!!!

I hope like heck that this one gets slapped hard. It would be nice for there to be a solid precident one way or the other to work from.

His traffic has gone from ~ 1M Uniques a day a month or two ago to now ~4M uniques a day. He is a moron for not getting permission.