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Digital Camera World
Mike Harris

Court case strikes back! Lawsuit over Annie Leibovitz’s Star Wars photos resurfaces

American photographer Annie Leibovitz discusses the new camera features on the new Google Pixel 4 smartphone during a Google launch event on October 15, 2019 in New York City. .

On May 05 (not quite Star Wars Day!) the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals overruled a district court order that previously dismissed a lawsuit over photographs of the production of various Star Wars movies that were captured by famed portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz.

The original lawsuit was filed in 2022 by Great Bowery Inc, the company behind licensing agency Trunk Archive, which was said to hold "exclusive worldwide representation to license her [Leibovitz] photographs."

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