George Santos sues Jimmy Kimmel for copyright infringement over Cameo videos used on his show

OK, I was curious to look it up. This is what their Terms of Service page (also linked by @Steve_L above) says:

  1. Subject to your payment in full, the Talent User hereby grants to you the following limited rights to use the CAMEO Video (other than a Business CAMEO Video) solely for your own personal, non-commercial, and non-promotional purposes, subject to these Terms: a non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid, worldwide, sublicensable, revocable license to use, reproduce, distribute, and publicly display that CAMEO Video, in any and all media (for example, on social media platforms), whether now known or hereafter invented or devised.

Santos is pond scum but unless I’m missing something it seems like Kimmel’s show counts as a commercial enterprise. Still, it’s not clear (to me) whether Santos has standing to sue if Cameo is the copyright holder?

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