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Lil Nas X Did Not Steal a Photographer’s Poses, Court docket Guidelines
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Lil Nas X Did Not Steal a Photographer’s Poses, Court docket Guidelines

Last updated: May 27, 2025 11:36 pm
Editorial Board Published May 27, 2025
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In his authorized submitting, Woodland cited photographs posted on Instagram by Lil Nas X, whose actual identify is Montero Lamar Hill, that Woodland stated resembled his personal semi-obscured nude self-portraits. In Hill’s photographs, the rapper is proven draped in chains, with photoshopped lights projecting from his groin, turned away from the digicam, reclining with intimate parts of his physique strategically obscured from view, and floating at a diagonal place in atmospheric settings.

The Might 16 choice in favor of Hill, delivered by Decide Kenneth Okay. Lee of the US Court docket of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, upholds a 2023 ruling by a California district court docket.

Aspect-by-side photographs of Rodney Woodland and Lil Nas X’s posts (screenshot Maya Pontone/Hyperallergic through court docket submitting)

Pictures on the heart of the case included three of Woodland’s self-portraits posted between August 2018 and July 2021 that depicted him together with his face obscured and his physique adorned with chains. The photographer alleged Hill had copied these photographs in a since-deleted 2021 Instagram submit selling his album Montero that confirmed his physique wrapped in chains and his eyes hidden behind a silvery masks. 

“The idea in each of the photos is the same — the provocative image of a Black man in chains,” Lee wrote within the choice. “But that idea is not protected — indeed, it is a common motif in many pieces of art.”

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One other set of photos included within the authorized paperwork (screenshot Maya Pontone/Hyperallergic through court docket submitting)

The court docket additionally identified that parts together with the background and lighting in one other pair of Woodland’s photographs, which image him mendacity on a stool together with his again arched, are completely different from these of Hill’s Instagram photos.

The court docket additional concluded that Woodland didn’t show that Hill had ever seen his self-portraits, declaring the huge variations within the two artists’ social media attain.Hyperallergic has contacted Woodland and Hill for remark.

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