A US court of appeals has dismissed a copyright case between a photographer and rapper Lil Nas X, saying that the original photos' existence on Instagram didn’t prove that the singer had viewed them and that the rapper’s photographs were not substantially similar to the photographer's.
Earlier this month, the Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals affirmed the lower court's decision to dismiss the case in Rodney Woodland v. Montero Lamar Hill. In the case, Instagrammer and artist Rodney Woodland claimed that singer Montero Lamar Hill, better known as Lil Nas X, the singer behind “Old Town Road,” had copied several of his images.
