Perez Hilton vs. X17 is getting dirty

[Born In A Brothel]

From X17:

If you’re gonna steal pix, you’re gonna get burned! Mario Lavandeira decided to infringe one of our images, yet again — as he does usually at least a few times each week — but this time we caught him with a [COLOR=blue! important][FONT='Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif][COLOR=blue! important][FONT='Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif]decoy[/font][/font][/color][/color] …

X17 sent out this week-old pix of [COLOR=blue! important][FONT='Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif][COLOR=blue! important][FONT='Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif]Lindsay [/font][COLOR=blue! important][FONT='Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif]Lohan[/font][/color][/font][/color][/color] to our UK clients and captioned them like this:

First pix of Lindsay Lohan since dramatic crash with her Mercedes SL 65 in Beverly Hills May 27, 2007 carrying medication May 27, 2007 X17online EXCLUSIVE
Mr. Hilton published the information from the caption and the caption’s a FAKE, JUST LIKE HIM! And though he always claims he doesn’t know the origins of the images he uses that are ours — you can see that our captions clearly state that the images are from X17. That’s what you get when you read Perez!

The real, exclusive Lindsay photos from early this morning are coming soon on X17!

In fact, every image of Lindsay that Perez has used so far, to illustrate the story of Lohan’s DUI, is an X17 image. See you in court, Mario!

Here’s the link to the story Perez ran, along with some screen captures for when he pulls it.

It’s funny that Perez seems to have something against X17 specifically. When Creative Age publications called him out on using one of their images for his logo, he removed the logo and changed his favicon. Now this may be, in part, because I think he’ll probably try to make a satire case for his use of X17’s images, and that shit probably won’t fly with his logo (not that it’s likely to fly for the rest of the pics, either). But he uses Buzz Foto’s images with their watermarks, and always credits them. Most of the rest of his pics come from WireImage. Every now and then he’ll steal from Splash or Flynet, but most of his stolen images are X17’s, and despite their lawsuit, he continues to do so. I think this shit is personal.


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Perez is such a dumbass.

[Chilly Willy]

I wondered how this case was doing the other day.

[Novice]

Apparently he has FIVE lawsuits out against him for using images illegally from suppliers. FIVE!!!!???? How the hell does he think he'll get out of that??? I (personally) think he's a scumbag, not only because of his stealing other people's work but some of the stuff he actually says is way across the line of human decency. He had something one time about Denise Richards pimping her kids out for sex (not just pimping them for media attention), it was horrible. Since then I've not read his page & would request that if you link to it, please make it clear its to his page, because I'd like to be able to make the choice about giving him money from his sponsers.

I thought that this "trap" was amusing.... and imo anything now that X17 does is getting to be justified. They've asked, requested & then eventually had to go to court to stop him using their photos illegally (if he paid for them, there (apparently) wouldn't be an issues as that is what these image agencies do - sell images...). He just blows raspberries at them & when you consider that the ads on his site cost between $9k-$15k per week - you KNOW that he can afford to pay for them, he's just a greedy banned fame-whore! & unfortunately getting more coverage in the UK because of it.....

He's also now being accused of nicking the logo he uses.

Did Perez Lift His Logo?

Posted May 21st 2007 3:01PM by TMZ Staff
Filed under: Celebrity Justice
Perez Hilton, the self-proclaimed Queen of All Media, may have used the five-finger discount when it came to creating his logo.

TMZ has obtained a copy of a letter sent to Perez (real name Mario Lavandeira) from Creative Age Publications, demanding the logo be removed. In the letter, Creative Age alleges that the picture Perez uses as his logo is theirs, and that it appeared in a feature in the September 2004 issue of Nailpro -- a magazine geared toward salon owners, managers and nail technicians.

Deborah Carver, publisher of Nailpro, says, "I'm a Perez fan, but he can't use our award-winning photos. This isn't the first time he's done this. These are proprietary works that take an entire team of people to put together."

The letter, which is dated today, reads, "Please be advised that our client is entitled to seek statuatory damages for willful copyright infringement up to $150,000 per work infringed."

Lavandeira's lawyer says he has not received any such letter yet. For his response, expect Perez to post a picture of a fingernail with white dots on it.
Did Perez Lift His Logo? - TMZ.com


Why am I not surprised...........?

[cowboy]

This guy Perez Hilton is trash.Shut his Blog down PLEASE.

[Karistiona]

I hope he gets taken down and we're finally rid of him, he's such a parasite.

[Beeyotch]

Can't stand him. If he would just be equal opportunity about it and give Parisite the trashing she so justly deserves, more than anyone else in the gossip landscape, I might consider visiting his blog again. Maybe.

But as it is, I hope x17 and any others suing him take his ass down!

[january]

In a few years he'll be completely broke and busted, and no one who kisses his ass now will care at all.

[Chilly Willy]

Put him in jail with banned!

[cora]

I`m so tired of seeing his fat face everywhere. He often steals photos and stories from other sites. Hope, the 12-year old kids still enjoy his "insider"-site.