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Meta is introducing a new tool designed to help Reels creators whose original work is being copied and reused without permission.

A long-lost and unrecorded photograph of one of America’s most influential thinkers Ralph Waldo Emerson has been discovered.

An underwater photographer is still locked in a 12-year court battle over his images of Blackbeard’s shipwreck, a case that tests a law shielding U.S. states from copyright claims.

The acclaimed artist Anish Kapoor is considering taking legal action after being left "horrified" by a group photo taken by border patrol agents posed in front of his Cloud Gate sculpture in Chicago.

The photographer involved in a heavily scrutinized Balenciaga campaign three years ago has filed a lawsuit against Drake, alleging that the rapper’s music video copied his work and attempted to connect his feud with Kendrick Lamar to the photographer’s role in that controversial fashion shoot.

A harbor seal being pursued by a pod of killer whales managed to survive by unexpectedly jumping onto a photographer's boat.

A 21-year-old National Geographic photographer has built an innovative amphibious camera system to capture the rapidly disappearing salt marshes in the U.S.

A veteran music photographer has lost his lawsuit with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame over the museum's "nearly exact" copy of his image of the band Van Halen.

A photographer was mauled to death by a pair of polar bears while taking pictures of the animals at a remote Arctic radar site in northeastern Canada.

Scientists mounted cameras on the backs of humpback whales and accidentally captured rare footage of sucker fish riding on them.

The iconic photograph used for the cover of David Bowie’s record Aladdin Sane has become the most expensive album artwork ever sold at auction.

Prince William and Princess Kate Middleton have won a lawsuit over "long-lens paparazzi photographs" taken of them on a family vacation.

In Japan, it is illegal for companies to use misleading photos on product packaging that make the product look different from what’s actually inside.

A photographer has filed a $650,000 lawsuit against her employer after she fell from a rocky bank while taking pictures inside a dolphin enclosure at Sea World Resort, Australia.

Scientists captured astonishing footage of a pod of orcas flipping over a great white shark to feast on its liver in a world-first.

Photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has revealed the story behind his photograph that ultimately became the cover image for Frank Ocean’s 2016 album Blonde.

New York City has filed a major lawsuit against Meta, Google, Snapchat, and TikTok, accusing them of contributing to what officials describe as a “youth mental health crisis.”

A U.S. federal judge has temporarily barred Homeland Security agents from using riot control weapons on journalists in the Chicago area after a photographer was struck with pepper balls.

Anker -- the Chinese company that produces Eufy security cameras -- offered users money in exchange for their videos of package and car thefts, whether real or staged, to train its AI systems.

A federal court has ruled that the city government of Louisville, Kentucky, violated a wedding photographer’s rights by trying to make her provide services for same-sex weddings.

Taylor Swift is facing allegations that her team used generative AI in promotional videos for her new album Life of a Showgirl.

Award-winning French photojournalist Antoni Lallican has been killed in a drone attack in Ukraine. It is the first time a journalist has been killed by a drone in Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion began more than three years ago.

Urban explorer photographer Isaac Wright, otherwise known as "Drift", has had his charges dropped after being arrested at his own exhibition, where the NYPD used one of his photos as evidence that he had climbed the Empire State Building.

An acclaimed wildlife photographer has pleaded guilty to trespassing on a private island to photograph critically endangered orange-bellied parrots.

The man photographed as a baby on Nirvana’s Nevermind album cover has lost his latest lawsuit against the band for distributing child sexual abuse imagery.

The University of San Francisco has issued a safety warning following reports of a man using Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses to record women for social media.

A photographer successfully brought legal action against a woman who assaulted him after demanding that he delete photos showing a child participating at a public event.

A photographer has revealed the little-known story behind the iconic image of Marilyn Monroe standing on a New York subway grate with the air from below lifting her skirt.

A team of engineers transformed video surveillance cameras into musical instruments, creating the world’s first orchestra made entirely of cameras.

A trial is underway over the death of a sports photographer who was killed by a runaway bike while covering a motorcycle racing competition.

Singer Selena Gomez chose photographer Petra Collins -- whose dreamlike pastel aesthetic and soft-focus film images have become highly influential online -- to shoot her wedding.

The trailer for Steve Schapiro: Being Everywhere has been released, giving fans a first look at the documentary about the iconic American photographer and journalist.

Facebook and Instagram users in the U.K. will be able to pay a subscription of up to $5.36 (£3.99) per month to use the platforms without ads.

Satellite photos reveal how a devastating hailstorm that swept across Canada last month left a 125-mile-long "scar" visible from space.

A museum director has been sentenced to 10 years in a Russian prison over a poster featuring a composite photograph of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Adolf Hitler merged into one face.

A judge approved a $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and a group of U.S. authors who alleged that the company stole their work to train its AI models in a high-profile class-action lawsuit.

Controversial photographer Sally Mann has warned of “a new era of culture wars” and predicted further attacks on the arts.

A trial will finally decide the long-contested fate of Billy Name's estate, who was Andy Warhol's photographer, including the rights to his significant archive of images.

An extraordinary collection of photographs, including rare works by Ansel Adams, Helmut Newton, and Diane Arbus, will be offered at auction by Christie’s this fall.

Previously unseen footage from a 1990 Nirvana concert -- filmed for fun by two videographers before the band rose to fame -- is being offered at auction, where it is expected to sell for up to $150,000.

Alaska’s newest island can now be seen from space in recently released satellite photographs from NASA.

The civilian pilot who flew his drone into a firefighting aircraft operating above the Los Angeles wildfires has been sentenced to two weeks in prison and ordered to pay $156,000 in fines.

Meta is under scrutiny after the company used parents' photos of schoolgirls as young as 13 to promote its Threads platform to adult men.

Burning Man has been sued by two popular YouTube filmmakers who allege that event organizers blocked them from filming the festival’s cleanup operations in the Nevada desert.

A man has filed a $1 million lawsuit against Bad Bunny for featuring his home in a short film -- a move that has turned the property into a photo destination for tourists and fans.

At least 52 couples fear they may never see their wedding photos after the FBI seized a popular videographer’s hard drives months ago.