Ups and downs may come to tattoo and to those who do them, because of a case that is to be heard in the next few days with Kat Von D. The famous tattoo artists he will apologize in court for a design, with his face Miles Davis, for which he even claims that he was not paid.
But let's take things from the beginning, as the tangle of this particular case starts back at 2017. So it was then that Katherine Von Drachenberg, as her full name is, "hit" the design that shows the jazz legend with a finger in front of his mouth, making the signature motion, as if asking for silence.
The photographer, Jeffrey Sedlik, who had captured this specific image with his camera, found that the Kat Von D, although she had not been paid for her work, as she says, she had shared it in social media, resorted to copyright law.
Speaking at Bloomberg, the copyright attorney Aaron Moss, explained how: “He basically says the tattoo is similar to his photo Miles Davis and therefore the Kat Von D has committed copyright infringement». Something for which the famous tattoo artists disagrees, saying that he has made modifications in relation to the original, which means that there is no such thing.
Her federal judge California as, he decided that the case can be brought to trial and now the staffs of both sides are preparing for it.
Her lawyers Kat Von D report that if the photographer is finally vindicated, everything will change in tattoos, as not only the tattoo artists for their creations, but also the customers themselves, since they will not be able to show the designs publicly or at social media, the plans they have made.
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