Shiloh's first picture

[morgan38]

Eh, she's cute I guess? I don't know...I kind of always thought all newborns looked the same.

 

[christina126]

a lot of online sources are being legally threatened. the pic had to be taken off of ontd and justjared.

iaw the people asking about maddox and zahara, i find it weird they arent included

this pic was leaked on the internet; there are supposed to be more pics released later this week so I bet we'll see Maddox and Z in those.

I cant get over how beautiful this baby is. And so tiny. aww

 

[laurlaur]

I don't know if this site will have to take it off, but I saved it to my hd just in case.

Gawker is keeping it up. http://www.gawker.com/news/brangelina/the-battle-of-shiloh-178844.php

The Battle of Shiloh

You post one little picture of Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt and, within seconds, the suits start calling. As it turns out, the Hello! cover photo of Shiloh and her sexy baby lips is very much authentic, so much so that Time Inc. lawyers were all up in our grill within an hour of this morning’s posting. As we were informed by Time Inc. counsel Nick Jollymore (cute!), by posting the Hello! cover, Gawker was infringing on People’s very exclusive, very expensive U.S. rights to the baby pictures. We think it’s small enough to fall under fair use, and we’d gladly replace the Hello! cover with a People one featuring the baby, but no dice. And so Time Inc. continues on its counseled quest, creating almost enough fun to distract everyone from their more dismal problems.

After the jump, dance the legal disco and trip the copyright fantastic.

From: Nick Jollymore
To: Lockhart Steele

Dear Mr. Steel:

We will be sending you more formal legal notices shortly. Gawker’s posting of the Hello! Magazine cover with Angelina Jolie and Bradd Pitt is an infringements of Time Inc.’s exclusive rights to that photograph. I need to talk to you or your attorney immediate.

Nick Jollymore
Deputy General Counsel
Time Inc.

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From: Lockhart Steele
To: Nick Jollymore
Cc: Gaby Darbyshire

Mr. Jollymore,

The individual at Gawker who handles our legal matters, Gaby Darbyshire, is traveling today. I’ve cc’d her on this correspondence.

As part of Gawker’s ongoing coverage of the media industry, we’re firm in our right to report on Hello’s treatment of the story, one of the biggest celebrity media news stories of the year. The Hello cover appears at thumbnail size and with links to the blog, D-listed, where we sourced the image from, per our image usage policies.

Should People wish for us to substitute a cover of its magazine featuring the image in lieu of the Hello cover, we’d be amenable.

Sincerely,
Lockhart Steele
Managing Editor
Gawker Media

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From: Nick Jollymore
To: Lockhart Steele

Dear Mr. Steele:

Your thumbnail is 2.5 x 3.5 inches on my screen. With all respect, this is not “fair use” but willful copyright infringement in an attempt to use a valuable photograph to enhance your site even though you have obtained no rights to do so.

The Time Inc. Law Department is coordinating with the lawyers for Hello!. Matthew Higdon, who acts for Hello! in the UK, authorized me to inform you that under U.K. law there is not even a colorable claim that Gawker’s posting of the Hello! cover is within the bounds of “fair use.” As you know, the copyright law in the U.K. is much less flexible in this respect than the law of the U.S. Gawker can be sued in the U.S. by both Time Inc. and the publisher of Hello!

Hello! and Time Inc. are coordinating our pursuit of websites which have posted the Hello! cover. The first step is an notice, which is also the last step if the sites take the cover down immediately. If they do not, we are coordinating legal action.

I repeat my demand that Gawker take down the Hello! cover immediately.

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From: Lockhart Steele
To: Nick Jollymore
Cc: Gaby Darbyshire

Mr. Jollymore,

Checking the thumbnail in question in Photoshop, I found it to be 160 pixels across. Pursuant to the Google Image Search standard of 150 pixels, I’ve had our editor resize the thumbnail appropriately.

We stand by our belief that the image, which we have never displayed outside the context of Hello’s treatment of it nor at anything larger than thumbnail size, is an important news media story that is within our rights to cover as part of our reporting on the celebrity media industry.

Sincerely,
Lockhart Steele
Managing Editor
Gawker Media

 

[vmob84]

aww she's cute, sooo tiny weird that she has teeth if those are teeth. I'm suprised they aren't some fancy photostudio pics that the celebs usually have with 10 pounds of make up on the mother... I guess its a nice change!

 

[sirene]

She has her mom's lips, that's for sure. She's cute, but looks just like any other baby to me.

 

[dladie42]

Those are definitely teeth and that's really strange becouse upper central incisors grow when the baby is 6-10 months old.

my baby was born with a tooth and my niece (my twin sister's baby) was born with 2 teeth..

 

[cosmogrl5]

She looks really tiny! But has the pout down already! Cute picture.

Considering that Angelina put on about 10 pregnancy pounds, I am not surprised that she is little! How lucky for that baby to have those lips...I am imagine those suckers come with pretty predominant genes. Features from either parent wouldn't be so bad though.

 

[LoveLetter]

Does that pout gene come from Jolie's mom?

Most first born daughters look like their dads; first born sons look like their moms.

 

[masquerade]

ive never heard that before. my older sister looks more like my mom and i look more like my dad, so i dunno if i agree with taht

i dont know if we will be asked to take it down, we arent a major website like the other ones for celebrity gossip, so they may not find us. lol

 

[sasscam]

Am I the only one really surprised they even sold exclusive rights?
It seems kind of tacky of them

 

[ShesElectric]

The lips of her mother and nose of her father, adorable.


I feel sad that Maddox and Zahara aren't in the shot... I wonder where they were at the time. It's like being pushed aside.

 

[Sephora_Socialite]

^ I can understand that. If you sell a picture you avoid the paps hovering around where you are to catch a glimpse. A lot of celebs have done that for their babies and weddings and in turn it was more "quiet" affairs as to having paps competiting to catch pictures.

 

[laurlaur]

It does bother me when celebrities complain about the media turning their attention on the children, but then they release a photoshoots of the kids when they're first born. Angelina doesn't seem to have a problem having Maddox be in magazines like Vanity Fair, so since of course people are going to swarm for the first picture, Brad and Angelina might as well sell it themselves and give the money to charity.

 

[plain.jane]

i dun like the fact that it's on Hello.
did they sell those pics?

 

[happycanadian]

It does bother me when celebrities complain about the media turning their attention on the children, but then they release a photoshoots of the kids when they're first born. Angelina doesn't seem to have a problem having Maddox be in magazines like Vanity Fair, so since of course people are going to swarm for the first picture, Brad and Angelina might as well sell it themselves and give the money to charity.

The money that they were paid for the exclusive photos WAS paid directly to Angelina's charities. So, I see absolutely no fault in them for selling the photos. And it's certainly not "tacky" -- it's basically the quickest way possible to round up a cool $5 million for charity.

I think that Gawker is playing with fire on this one, and it wouldn't surpise me for a second if they find themselves properly burned.

 

[smartarse]

Ummm... I don't want to be the bearer of bad news but TFS will have to take the pix down. Legal Eagles are on the warpath about this. BUT if this place keeps it quiet, perhaps, it will be spared by Brangelina Big Brother.

 

[snowqueen]

aww she is too precious .. i love the pose shes got going with one arm behind her head lol .. she all of a few weeks old and posing already .. her little top is cute as well.

as for the teeth issue .. wonder if angelia breast feeding ?? i wouldnt like some baby with teeth chomping away on me .. painfull

 

[Tushka_BeLLa]

She's got those Angelina lips..... gorgeous!

 

[bluedolphin]

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i think she' s not brad' s baby,looks a little old~~

 

[Harumi]

Is TSF an American based web-site or a European based web-site?
If it is American, it is safer to take them down now, as it breaches People's exclusivity rights (in the US). Hello is out tomorow anyway so HQs will be all over the net.
If it is European, it's not a problem at all. The pics are from UK Hello web site and are not illegal or breach Hello's exclusivity rights.