Rapper Snoop Dogg is in legal hot water after posting a viral video of a protester trying to climb a Manhattan office building to Instagram without permission.
Bosses at media outlet FreedomNews.TV filed suit on Monday, October 18 in Los Angeles federal court over the alleged violation of their copyright, Billboard reports.
Snoop captioned the video “Dummy of the Week” when he posted it to Instagram. According to Billboard, the post is still on his Instagram page and has been viewed more than 4.5 million times.
The suit also accuses Snoop of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act since he shared the alleged copyrighted footage without crediting FreedomNews.TV. “Defendant intentionally removed copyright management information related to the video,” the media outlet wrote. “Defendant purposefully failed to include the video credit originally conveyed with the video in order to mislead the public into believing that defendant either owned the video or had legitimately licensed it.”
Over the years, there have been several celebrities who have faced off against the paparazzi and similar outlets who have sued them, often over videos and images of themselves. It is unclear what damages FreedomNews.TV is seeking.
