Mark Sutton claims Lewis Hamilton breached copyright

[The_Abyss]

This seems to be causing a fuss on a few websites after Mark Sutton posted about it on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/mark.sutton.7758/posts/10152998862726971

The issue appears to be that Lewis Hamilton's team took the images and re-posted them on all the normal social media sites, and they were then picked up by several publications but in doing so they credited copyright to Lewis Hamilton.

Any thoughts? I thought the images would still be the property of the photographer.

 

[The_Abyss]

I don't know if he claimed copyright (maybe taking the picture and putting it on your own Instagram feed or similar is akin to doing the same?) but when newspapers / websites took the photos from his social feeds they credited the copyright to him.

I thought copyright existed irrespective of where they were published.