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Lil Nas X Beats Copyright Lawsuit Claiming He Stole Instagram Poses: ‘Almost Nothing In Common’

Lil Nas X won the dismissal of a copyright lawsuit claiming the rapper copied an Instagram user's photos by using similar nude poses in his own posts.

But in a ruling Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit says that the dueling sets of Instagram posts share only a few scattered similarities that didn’t legally add up to copyright infringement. “It is not enough to simply allege that [Lil Nas] is an active user of Instagram and thus had a reasonable possibility of viewing Woodland’s photos,” Lee writes for a three-judge panel. Several of the disputed photos featured both Woodland and Nas “draped in chains.” The court said that was a clear similarity, but not one that trigger’s copyright law’s protections for creative expression.

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