It appears Kim Kardashian-West is in legal hot water for posting a photo of her and a smiley Kanye West snapped by photographer Saeed Bolden during the release party for Nas’ Nasir back in October of 2018.
According to a report by TMZ, Bolden claims that he never gave permission for Kardashian to post the image — and didn’t receive any compensation for its use.
Though he isn’t putting a finite dollar figure on what he thinks the photo is worth, he’s looking to collect any profits made off the post, plus undisclosed punitive damages. His suit also named Kardashian’s shapewear line, Skims Body — though the brand’s account never posted the image.
This isn’t the first time a Kardashian has been left liable after using a photograph of themselves. Back in 2017, her sister Khloe was sued after she posted an image of herself eating lunch in Miami that was taken Manual Munoz and then licensed to The Daily Mail.
In February 2019, seemingly as a response to annoying legal hoops and grievances from fans hit with copyright complaints when trying to repost images from her profiles, Kardashian announced that she was hiring a personal photographer — and all her photos, unless attributed to a third party, were now fair game.
To date, Saeed Bolden’s image has received over 2.2 million likes on Instagram.
Omg! That is so sad and unfair to Kim!!! Said no one ever!!!!!!!!!!! Why is this even on this website?????
Photographers are such whiney dweebs about this stuff.
This guy’s probably making a bigger deal about this than it really is, just because it’s Kim and Kanye
Lol she should’ve blower him lol
YO LET SOMEONE TELL ME I CANT USE A PICTURE OF MYSELF ON MY PLATFORM, FOH, ILL COUNTER SUE HIS ASS SO QUICK
LMAO! Is this photographer serious? I can’t really tell if the niggah is chasing clout or just straight outta hunger-ville looking for a loose dollar. What has this world come to? Now it’s no longer safe to post your own image smh
Someone need to fuckin break this dick suckers camera clean over his head your the fuck at their get together with a bitch ass press pass just snappin photos without their permission then cry later when they use your phoro good luck ever getting into a celeb get together again clown hope it was worth a few hundred bucks seriously this world fills itself with more bitches daily
Look…I understand how ridiculous this sounds, but do we forget that people actually sued on behalf of a gorilla that accidentally took a pic with a camera claiming it owned the rights to the pic. We’re just fucking stupid creatures, who find a way to make everything about ourselves…even pics of other people.
Im gonna play devils advocate and say that Kim K should’ve at least tagged the photographer in the photo, or at the very least wrote in the caption who took it. As for suing, I’m pretty sure its gonna cancel him out of any other celebrity meet up from here on… probably wasn’t worth it.
wow a lame paparazzi sues you for your OWN photo. the photo is pricey in the first place cause of Kim! What a greedy lame photog. Just reach out to her privately. She should ban him from taking any more pics of her