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Content creator agrees to drop US copyright claim against DiCaprio

By Melissa Ritti ( July 9, 2025, 20:00 GMT | Insight) -- A dispute between the owner of video footage of a hurricane-ravaged Bahamas and Leonardo DiCaprio, who shared the copyrighted work with his 61.2 million Instagram followers without permission, ended in a settlement yesterday. The infringement case by Global Weather Productions survived an early fair-use challenge in a key test for content creators — an industry Goldman Sachs estimates will top $498 billion annually by 2027.The owner by assignment of aerial footage of the damage left by Hurricane Dorian as it swept across the Bahamas’ Abaco Islands has resolved a copyright infringement claim against Leonardo DiCaprio....

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