Amazon and Canon File Joint Lawsuit Against Camera Battery Counterfeiters
Amazon and Canon have targeted a large group of "bad actors" that the two companies allege have sold counterfeit camera batteries and chargers to unsuspecting buyers.
Amazon and Canon have targeted a large group of "bad actors" that the two companies allege have sold counterfeit camera batteries and chargers to unsuspecting buyers.
RED's lawsuit against Nikon for infringing on its video compression patents has been dismissed, effectively giving Nikon permission to continue allowing compressed internal RAW video recording in its cameras.
A photojournalist is being sued by the city of Los Angeles for publishing hundreds of images of undercover officers that were accidentally given to him by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).
Rapper Cam'ron has been sued for allegedly using an iconic photo of him wearing a pink fur coat on a slew of merchandise without the photographer's permission.
Tesla has been hit with a class-action lawsuit following a report that its employees privately shared images and videos captured by the cameras built into the company's popular electric vehicles.
The state of Arkansas is suing Meta and TikTok, accusing the social media platforms of misleading consumers about the safety of children on its "addictive" platforms and deceiving users about the protection of their private data.
A family is suing Netflix for using images of their house that were allegedly taken by a drone in an advertisement for a reality television show.
Police officers have sued rapper Afroman for improperly using images and footage from a botched raid on his Ohio home last year in his music videos.
A group in Illinois has filed a class action lawsuit against California-based Prisma Labs, the company behind the artificial intelligence-powered photo editing app, Lensa.ai.
Vanessa Bryant, the widow of NBA legend Kobe Bryant, has reached a settlement of close to $30 million with Los Angeles County over leaked graphic photos of the helicopter crash that killed the basketball player and their 13-year-old daughter Giann.
In late 2021, ARRI launched legal proceedings to challenge the validity of multiple patents related to lighting effects, claiming that many were erroneously granted for technical solutions that weren't actually new. It has today withdrawn that complaint with regard to Rotolight.
Jay-Z has settled a lawsuit with a photographer over images that he was selling of the rapper -- claiming that he made an “arrogant assumption that because he took those photographs, he can do with them as he pleases.”
A photographer who sued a hospitality tech company for removing copyright metadata from his photos before posting them on travel websites, has been denied an appeal to a lower court's dismissal of his case.
A group of artists has filed a class-action lawsuit against AI image generators Stable Diffusion and Midjourney.
The public school district in Seattle has filed a lawsuit against the companies behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Snapchat, accusing them of harming young people’s mental health.
Supermodel Bella Hadid is facing a second copyright infringement lawsuit for posting an image of herself on Instagram without a photographer's permission -- a little over a week after a French photo agency also sued her.
A photographer is suing Gannett Media for as much as $34 million in damages after hundreds of its news publications allegedly used her image without permission.
A photographer has reportedly been left unable to pay rent after Kanye West failed to pay her $110,000 for a last-minute photo shoot.
Rapper Cardi B is being sued for posting a Marge Simpson photograph that allegedly copies another artist's work.
Fujifilm is the subject of a class-action lawsuit that alleges the company falsely advertises its X-Pro3 as having "reliable durability" despite using "defective ribbon connector cables."
A class action lawsuit has been filed in the state of California that alleges the serial number stickers on Sony lenses too easily fall off and therefore prevent owners from getting free repairs or taking part in product recalls.
Meta has defeated a photographer in a lawsuit that claims Facebook contributes to copyright infringement by letting outside websites embed images shared on the social media platform. However, a San Francisco federal judge has given the photographer permission to file a new complaint.
The United States Department of Justice today revealed that it had formerly charged two suspected Chinese operatives for plotting to disrupt the criminal investigation into Huawei.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Google, alleging that the Silicon Valley tech giant unlawfully captured and used the biometric data of millions of Texans without obtaining their consent.
A Dutch court has ruled that a U.S.-based software company violated an employee's human rights after it forced him to keep his webcam on while working.
The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments for the Warhol v. Goldsmith copyright case, the ramifications of which will have a dramatic effect on photographers.
Reality TV star NeNe Leakes has been sued by a photographer who claims she was never paid after she was hired to take pictures at her club.
Facebook users have sued its parent company Meta for allegedly tracking them via an in-app browser on iOS devices despite the strict Apple privacy policies in place.
In May, RED Digital Cinema filed a lawsuit against Nikon, alleging that the data compression technology it uses in the Z9 camera violated its patents. Nikon has responded and argues RED's patent should never have been approved to begin with.
Spencer Elden, the man whose photo is on Nirvana's iconic album Nevermind, has lost a lawsuit he brought against the band after Elden claimed he was exploited as a child.
A federal judge ruled yesterday that the city of Louisville, Kentucky, cannot ban a Christian photographer from limiting her wedding photography business to opposite-sex couples.
Snap has agreed on a settlement of $35 million in an Illinois class action lawsuit over its use of facial recognition.
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The United States Copyright Office has submitted an opinion to the Supreme Court that argues Andy Warhol's use of Lynn Goldsmith's photo of Prince was not fair use, sharing sentiments with opinions sent by the NPPA and ASMP.
Epidemic Sound has sued Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta for storing, curating, reproducing, and distributing its music without authorization to the tune of upwards of 80,000 infractions per day.
A former Facebook employee says he was fired for raising concerns about a new company protocol that allowed staff to access deleted user data and share the information with law enforcement.
A former class of school students was told by a federal judge they can pursue a lawsuit against PeopleConnect after their yearbook photos were published without their permission on the company's social networking site Classmates.com.
Meta has announced that it has filed separate legal actions in federal court against a company and an individual who scraped data from Facebook and Instagram.
Los Angeles Lakers player Kendrick Nunn has been sued for copyright infringement by the same photographer who recently settled a copyright infringement legal battle with Nunn's superstar teammate, LeBron James.
A longstanding dispute over the custody of photos of Prince made it to a federal appeals court last month after the late artist's personal photographer claimed his images were illegally used and stolen by his collaborators.