“My Face, Their Photo”: The 50 Cent Lawsuit That Exposes the Brutal Truth About Image Rights

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“My Face, Their Photo”: The 50 Cent Lawsuit That Exposes the Brutal Truth About Image Rights

2025/12/15 Report

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Here’s a celebrity legal twist that still melts people’s brains: 50 Cent was sued for posting pictures of himself. Not a deepfake. Not a fan edit. Photos where is the subject.

Back in 2017, a professional photographer named Christopher Pasatieri alleged that 50 Cent “lifted” his photos and posted them to Instagram

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without permission, using the images to promote things like SMS Audio headphones and the TV brand orbiting around . In other words, it wasn’t just “sharing a nice pic”—the claim was that the posts helped sell products and publicity.

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