Ariana Grande Is Being Sued For $50,000 After Posting Paparazzi Pics On Instagram

After all, the photos are of them, you'd think they would have some kind of right over the photo since they are the subject.

Take Gigi Hadid, for example. She has been sued not once, but twice for using paparazzi photos without consent.

Thankfully, the amount the photographer is demanding is most likely a drop in the bucket compared to Ariana's bank balance.

None of Ariana's representatives have commented on the issue just yet.

She captioned the post, “Happy Sweetener Day,” upon releasing the album.

But in the hopes of back-peddling, she has since deleted both of them.

The photographer is asking for $25,000 for both photos and any profits she made from the post itself, amounting to potentially, $50,000.

Ari is currently on tour promoting her albums, Sweetener and Thank U, Next.

Khloé Kardashian, Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Simpson, and 50 Cent have all also been sued for posting paparazzi photographs. Marvel Studios and Tom Holland were also sued for posting paparazzi shots of Holland in his Spiderman suit to their Instagram pages.

Entertainment lawyer Bryan Sullivan told Buzzfeed News that "the penalties for willful infringement are steep — $150,000 for each violation. Photographers can also sue for loss of profit and legal fees."

Even though there's a potential argument that their celebrity is providing profit for the photographer, it's much easier and quicker for these celebrities to settle out of court. That's likely what Marvel Studios did.

She's since tweeted about the event and sounded totally bewildered. Khloé and the paparazzi suing her eventually, like Marvel, settled the issue out of court.

We all know paparazzi hound and stalk celebrities to try to get that perfect photo, sometimes even going so far as verbally harassing them or endangering others. Khloé pointed out that it only seemed fair she should be able to use the pictures they took.

Khloé's fans pointed out that they were having their own Instagram accounts reported for posting celebrity photos, even though they gain no profit from using the pictures.

Gigi Hadid found herself in a very similiar situation to Ariana just last year, but she decided not to quietly settle this issue out of court.

The photographer sued Gigi, seeking damages for copyright infringement and any profits she made off of the post which received 1.6 million likes and comments within four days of being posted.

"Yesterday I heard from my management that I am being ‘legally pursued’ for my last (now deleted) Instagram post. The photo is by a Paparazzi & is of me on the street outside an event last week," she wrote.

"this was an appropriate situation for ‘the press’ to attend, and also that this is how paparazzi make a living."

"these people make money off of us everyday, LEGALLY stalking us day in and day out," she went on.

She then explained that she found the photo that she's being sued for, already posted by someone else on Twitter.

She called the lawsuit "absurd", claiming that if the photographer had just commented asking for credit, she would have been happy to give it to them.

But she's probably too busy being the most followed woman on Instagram, breaking Billboard and Spotify records, enjoying her world tour, and being the queen of pop music at the moment.

Should celebrities have more rights over the photos taken of them?