Kylie Jenner is being accused of stealing other peoples concepts and ideas…again
Nov 21, 2016
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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It’s not the first time Kylie Jenner’s been accused of stealing other peoples ideas. She’s been accused of copying lipstick formulas form other companies. She’s also been accused of stealing a makeup artist’s eyeshadow palette for her “KyShadows”, as well as imagery from LA make-up artist Vlada Haggerty. You might remember Vlada. We featured a post of hers on DIYP a few months ago on giving credit where it is due. How’s that for irony?
Vlada is now accusing Kylie of stealing from her, yet again. This time, it’s the concept from a shoot she did in September. Vlada posted an image to Instagram in September. Kylie posted hers just yesterday. After seeing them side-by-side, you can’t deny there’s a pretty striking similarity between the two. Here’s Vlada’s image, that was posted two months ago.
And here’s Kylie’s shot, posted yesterday.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BNAk-2PjGKr/
Naturally, Vlada was not best pleased. She posted a side-by-side and called Kylie out on Instagram where both images had been posted. Well, wouldn’t you?
Jenner’s post is now being littered with pictures of snakes and people calling her a thief in the comments.
There’s been no response from Kylie’s camp yet about the image in question, but I guess she’s been too busy launching some new collection or other.
So, is it just another example of somebody not giving a crap and taking what they want? Or a genuine coincidence? Given Jenner’s past, I think it’s highly unlikely she’s not aware of Vlada’s recent work. Tell us what you think in the comments.
Update: Similar such incidents have arisen in the past.
- Temple Island Collections Ltd vs New English Teas Ltd (Ruled in favour of the original creator)
- Rihanna settles copycat lawsuit with David LaChapelle for undisclosed sum (Why settle if she did nothing wrong?)
[via Harper’s Bazaar]
John Aldred
John Aldred is a photographer with over 25 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter – and occasional beta tester – of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
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23 responses to “Kylie Jenner is being accused of stealing other peoples concepts and ideas…again”
luckily there is no law on shooting pictures that someone else has done before in any part of the world that i know of.
luckily there is no law on shooting pictures that someone else has done before in any part of the world that i know of. that would surely means the end of photography.
Read the update… and read copyright laws…
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWPCC/2012/1.html
and? the updates says nothing about my statement.
The update talks about similar issues taken into court and the veredict or conclusion… So it is related…
not to my statement.
Snuggle,
Actually there is, Michael Grecco sued AOL for copying his image and won. Lachlan Bailey claims he sued Donald Trump and won: https://www.instagram.com/p/BLWoT3Zho4L/
sigh! if i copy and paste maybe you understand that this is irrelevant to my statement.
>Snugge Dr. • 3 days ago
>luckily there is no law on shooting pictures that someone else has done before in any
>part of the world that i know of. that would surely means the end of photography.
if there would be a law that forbid to take photos other did i guess no one would be taking pictures commercially.
Please before making a statement you should read the update (last paragraph in the article)
Ok I get it! … but if you are an artist consistently creating invariably you are going have some extreme similarities .
That’s beyond a similarity… that’s a blatant copy of the other photo…
Carla,
We are creative professionals and we constantly create something, and similarities will inevitably happen. But it is in our power to make sure we use other photographers’ work as inspiration, we DO NOT copy. Especially when it’s a commercial campaign for a big cosmetics brand. Ripping off a lesser known team’s work is just a shame. If you still doubt whether or not this was not unintentional, please read my post about it, you will see that there are too many connections between the two images for our comfort: http://masterbeautyphotography.com/kylie-jenners-latest-cosmetics-campaign/
They are both hideous. What this has to do with photography now?
Wow… So whenever someone copies a photo you take wouldn’t be nice to know that this kind of stuff usually rules in favor of the photographer who did the photo first?
Geez…
WHO CARES?!?!?!?!?
Your comment makes me wonder what you are doing on a photography website.
simply ignore these morons. every news about them is what they want,.
I sincerely hope something like this happens to you and you will know how it feels.
There is inspiration and then there is blatant copying. This is the latter. Not kosher.
Hi John,
I am the photographer who shot the copied image with Vlada. I wrote about this situation in detail on my blog: http://masterbeautyphotography.com/kylie-jenners-latest-cosmetics-campaign/
You might find this story to have more to do with unethical, unprofessional actions of Kylie Cosmetics’ photographer who was hired to shoot their campaign, then anything else.
At this point both, Kylie Cosmetics and the photographer removed their copy of our photograph from their accounts, which goes to show that only a big splash like the one we caused (thanks to Vlada’s big following and the support of respected publications) can make the rich and powerful realize that this is wrong. Which, in my opinion, highlights a very sad state of the professional photography and unethical behavior of some commercial photographers in this day and age.
Bravo Julia! I’m really glad this went so viral and you and Vlada got the respect you deserve for your work.
Thank you Vanitas!