Fox News Faces Copyright Suit Over Ocasio-Cortez Photo (1)

July 25, 2019, 4:02 PM UTCUpdated: July 25, 2019, 9:02 PM UTC

A New York photographer is accusing Fox News Network LLC of copyright infringement for allegedly reproducing a photo he took of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and using it for a television broadcast.

Fox News violated copyright law via the “unauthorized reproduction and public display” of a photo of Ocasio-Cortez taken by plaintiff Jesse Korman, the photographer alleged in a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Fox News in February 2019 ran a photograph of Ocasio-Cortez on the Fox News Channel, Korman alleged. Korman claims that “Fox News is not, and has never been, licensed ...

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