Gigi Hadid is pissed… but she has a point!!
The supermodel has clapped back publicly after being threatened with a lawsuit by a paparazzi who was mad at her for posting one of his photos to Instagram without purchasing it and/or giving credit.
But Hadid — who quickly deleted the pic after being threatened with the suit — was quick to notice the irony of the situation.
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Late yesterday, Hadid wrote and posted a two-slide statement to her IG account slamming the paparazzi for dangerous practices and openly criticizing how ironic it is that they’d threaten her legally after going through sometimes less-than-legal means to obtain their photos in the first place.
Here’s the full post, on two slides (below):
Wow!
Well said… and she’s got a valid point!!
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But don’t take it from us, because we aren’t the only ones to think so — after posting it, as you can see (below), other celebs reacted in bunches with support for Gigi’s stance:
There you have it! Gigi has every right to be pissed off by that threatened lawsuit!
She took it a step further, though, as well — when a commenter accused her of calling paparazzi to set up “surprise” photos, and pointed out that paparazzi interest has kept her and Zayn Malik relevant, Gigi went OFF in the comments, too!!!
She wrote back (below):
“You are terribly uninformed. 1. I don’t get paid to be in magazines. 2. A photographer that shoots me for a job can use that image for that job only, it is illegal for that photo or any photo I do not consent to to be reused anywhere outside that publication by the photographer, both parties have rights. It should be the same here. And your final comment shows you know absolutely nothing, what you see is what you see … me leaving my house, me entering my boyfriend’s building. … I’ve never called a pap. Am I just not supposed to go anywhere ever again??? Lol. If you can figure out a way for them to leave my house I will pay you! But for all the days I’ve stayed inside hoping they’ll leave that doesn’t always happen. … We do our best to not lock ourselves inside and sneak out when possible, but that’s no way to live life. Even if I were to hire one pap and give pics to fans like you’re saying, it doesn’t stop other paps from showing up, suing fan accounts, etc. so doesn’t really help the issue.”
WOW!!!
And while nobody says it’s right to post a photographer’s pictures like that… a lawsuit? Really? Photogs can’t have it both ways!
Thoughts, Perezcious readers?? Let us know what you think of this situation in the comments (below)!
[Image via WENN.]
