Court Documents: Amy Taylor Response to Copyright Counterclaim in Photo Dispute
Records from U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
This page hosts court records from Amy Louise Taylor v. Jamie Nelson Studios LLC et al., including Taylor’s answer to the photographer’s corrected first amended counterclaim for copyright infringement filed in federal court in California.
The filing responds to counterclaims brought by photographer Jamie Nelson, who alleged that Taylor and others associated with her band infringed the copyright in photographs taken during a May 2025 photo shoot that later appeared in the July 2025 issue of Vogue Portugal.
In the response, Taylor acknowledged posting some of the photographs on social media but denies that the conduct constitutes infringement. Her filing argues that the posts were noncommercial and permitted either through an express or implied license or under the doctrine of fair use.
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The Amyl and the Sniffers frontwoman said her posts of images from a Vogue Portugal shoot were authorized and protected by fair use.
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