Brooklyn Photographer Alleges Infowars Infringed His Jeffrey Epstein Death Photo
The complaint filed Thursday, alleging copyright infringement over a Jeffrey Epstein image, joins a growing number of litigation against the Texas-based Infowars.
March 27, 2020 at 12:04 PM
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Infowars faces new litigation by a Brooklyn photographer who photographed emergency medical technicians at a hospital who were trying to revive Jeffrey Epstein after he died by suicide in jail.
The complaint filed Thursday joins a growing number of litigation against the Texas-based Infowars, which also faces cases in Texas and Connecticut over its founder, Alex Jones' reporting that the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a hoax.
New York copyright litigator Richard Liebowitz represents plaintiff William Farrington in this new lawsuit, Farrington v. Infowars, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas.
"News and political companies must get authorization from the photographer before using photographs on their websites," Liebowitz, of the Liebowitz Law Firm in Valley Stream, New York, wrote in an email. "Photographers have a right to get paid for their photos and are able to enforce their rights against those who do not seek the proper permissions."
Farrington alleged in the complaint that he's a professional photographer who shot the Epstein photo and owns the copyright to the work. He licensed the image to the New York Post for an Aug. 10, 2019, article.
The same day, Infowars published an article about Epstein's death, and the site used one of Farrington's photograph, the complaint alleged.
Read the complaint:
"InfoWars did not license the photograph from plaintiff for its article, nor did Infowars have plaintiff's permission or consent to publish the photograph on its website," the complaint said, adding that the site didn't give a photo credit to Farrington.
The photographer, bringing copyright infringement and related claims, is suing Infowars for damages and the defendant's profits, or for statutory damages of up to $175,000. He also wants to recover costs and attorney fees.
One Texas lawsuit that Infowars and Jones are facing alleges another type of impropriety using photographs.
Pending in Texas state court in Austin, the case, Fontaine v. Jones, involves a man suing Jones and Infowars for falsely publishing his photo and saying he was the gunman in the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Austin's Third Court of Appeals ruled in October 2019 that the claim could proceed.
Robert Barnes, founder of Barnes Law in Los Angeles, and the outside general counsel for Infowars, didn't immediately return an email seeking comment.
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