Celebrity Pics = Illegal On your site?
 

Are putting up pictures of celebrities illegal?

Like www.entensity.net Has a lot of pics of celebrities but its not licensed.. why isnt he getting in shit?... his site was even featured on CNN money for site of the week or something... all the links that he has for download are copyrighted applications and images.... Is this legal or illegal?

What's celebrity ?

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technically it is... but fair use laws let you use celebrity content in a certian light. Like mrskin.com ... if it's reviews/news type stuff you can use a certain percentage of a movie. 7% i believe.. not sure. But you can't portray them in a bad light, because that is defemation of character..

im really not too sure, that's all i know..

videos like the paris hilton one i really dont know, i think they have to send you a C&D notice. But technically they did produce the video so it is a copyrighted material in their name. Either way, if i hosted the paris video and got a c&d notice from the hilton lawyers, personally i'd drop the video in a second. They've got more money than any of us combined so im pretty sure they'd win.