Is the USA that hated now that we can't have Tori Spelling's pictures from a Hollywood party taken by an LFI photog?

More likely is the fact that the photographer was actually a freelance, and only sold LFI the UK rights (or everywhere but US rights), and the US rights probably got sold to some US company.

This mean if you want to use the picture in the US and the rest of the world then you just need to pay twice, nice work if you can get it