In some countries, privacy law and personality rights can lead to civil action against organizations that publish photos of nude celebrities without a model release, and this restricts the availability of such photos through the print media. Paparazzi-produced photos are in high demand among sensational magazines and press. Playboy magazine was known for offering celebrities large amounts of money to appear nude in its magazine, and more downmarket pornographic magazines search far and wide for nude pictures of celebrities taken unaware - for example, when they are bathing topless or nude at what the subject thought was a secluded beach, or taken before the individual was well known. There has been a commercial demand for images of nude celebrities for many decades.
Types include authorized images, such as film screenshots, copies from previously published images, such as shots from magazines or stills or clips from movies, to unauthorised images such as celebrity sex tapes and paparazzi photos capturing unintentional or private scenes, and faked or doctored images. It is a lucrative business exploited by websites and magazines. There has been demand for imagery of nude celebrities for many decades. Annette Kellerman in nude scene from A Daughter of the Gods (1915).
