Celebrity hounds might soon have fewer candid shots of their fave celebs coming out of Los Angeles after California’s celeb Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill on Friday that triples the damages celebrities can seek from paparazzi if they are assaulted during a shoot. More importantly, the bill blocks any profit photographers can make from selling shots taken during altercations with the famous.
The bill’s author, Democratic Assemblywoman Cindy Montañez, said, “We always said that the only way we would be able to curb dangerous behavior by these paparazzi was by going after their motivation, and that is being able to make enormous, outrageous profits.”
The law goes into effect on January 1.
Compiled by Onye Ijei