In 2017, celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D shared an image on her social media accounts: a portrait of Miles Davis that she had done on the arm of a client at her High Voltage Tattoo store in West Hollywood. Now she is being sued for this tattoo. Like Advertising panel reports, photographer Jeffrey Sedlik filed a 31-page complaint in California’s federal court on Sunday, in which he claims the tattoo constitutes copyright infringement of his image. Sedlik claims to be the sole and exclusive owner of the copyright to the image, which he filmed in 1989. It originally appeared in an August 1989 cover story in JAZZIZ magazine.
