Gagosian Gallery, which has found itself in the middle of an ongoing legal saga regarding artist Richard Prince's work, has won an early legal victory regarding the case. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has ruled that the gallery is not liable for any profits made from Prince's New Portraits series.
The U.S. Copyright Office has opened a public consultancy seeking opinions on how copyright should work with AI-generated material.
The newly-formed Copyright Claims Board (CCB) has ruled the owner of a website must pay a photographer $3,000 after it infringed upon his copyright.
A federal judge has ruled that images generated with artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be copyrighted while contrasting them with photography.
A major Chinese photo agency is demanding an astrophotographer pay $12,000 to use his own photos after he posted his work to social media platform Weibo. The photographer says he never licensed his photos to the agency.
The world's leading photo agencies and photographer associations have co-signed an open letter calling for legal protections against artificial intelligence (AI).
A grizzly bear has been credited as the author of its own selfie after it found a GoPro in a pond, turned it on, and took a video.
A photographer is seeking compensation in a court of law after alleging that the cannabis website Leafly used his photos of rappers Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur.
Yesterday at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright, Stability AI head of public policy Ben Brooks admitted to using "billions" of images without asking the copyright owner's consent to train the AI image generator Stable Diffusion.
The United States Copyright Office (USCO) has doubled down on its stance regarding artificial intelligence (AI), stating unequivocally that it will not register works generated entirely by AI.
In 2022, an AI-generated work of art won the Colorado State Fair’s art competition. The artist, Jason Allen, had used Midjourney – a generative AI system trained on art scraped from the internet – to create the piece. The process was far from fully automated: Allen went through some 900 iterations over 80 hours to create and refine his submission.
An Italian museum has won a lawsuit against a magazine publisher which used a photo of Michelangelo's sculpture David without permission -- despite the 500-year-old artwork belonging in the public domain.
In the first such declaration of its kind, Japan has seemingly asserted that it will not enforce copyrights when it comes to training generative artificial intelligence (AI) programs.
By this point, you've probably seen Adobe's beta of Generative Fill in Photoshop, which allows you to expand a photo beyond its original borders. It is an incredible feat of technology, but brings up complicated questions: who owns that new, expanded photo? Is it copyrightable?
The United States Supreme Court has released its opinion on The Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith case, finding in favor of Lynn Goldsmith and stating that Warhol's use of her photo was not fair use.
Copyright Concensum, a blockchain-based global copyright registration service that advertised itself almost exclusively to photographers, appears to be completely dead.
Flickr has updated its community guidelines to combat "copyleft trolling." As described by Cory Doctorow on Pluralistic, this is excellent news for people that use Creative Commons (CC) images from Flickr, even if they make accidental attribution errors.
The U.S. Copyright Office has warned that an image generated solely from a text prompt does not qualify for human authorship in fresh guidance released yesterday.
Last month, the United States Copyright Office determined that artificial intelligence (AI) artwork cannot be copyrighted. That's great, but with so much AI being added to cameras, where is the line? When is a photo no longer a photo?
A graphic artist, who received the first known U.S. copyright registration for artificial intelligence (AI) generated artwork last year, has lost the copyright protection for these images.
A photographer has filed a copyright infringement claim against an artist who allegedly replicated her photograph as a painting.
In one of the first intellectual property cases brought to federal court that deals with non-fungible tokens (NFTs), fashion brand Hermes has won a copyright lawsuit against an artist who created NFT versions of its Birkin bags.
A free-to-use artificial intelligence (AI) watermark remover that removes photographers' copyright marks has caused consternation in the creative community.
A group of artists has filed a class-action lawsuit against AI image generators Stable Diffusion and Midjourney.
A computer scientist who is trying to obtain copyrights for his artificial intelligence (AI) system has taken his case to a federal court.
As the penny drops with photographers and artists alike that their images have been used to train AI image generators on a monumental scale — the backlash is growing stronger.
Midjourney founder David Holz has admitted that his company did not receive consent for the hundreds of millions of images used to train its AI image generator, outraging photogarphers and artists.
After hyping a major announcement, Donald Trump revealed his next major project: NFTs. But reverse image searches of some of the "digital trading cards" revealed them to be edits of clothing easily found in Google search, raising copyright questions.
Artificial intelligence-powered image generators have exploded into the mainstream. Thanks to support from major stock sites, they are also an approachable route to making money. But as is almost always the case, when money gets involved, the situation quickly becomes far more complicated.
A court has ruled that an artist accused of copying a photographer's work did not commit plagiarism.