After nearly two decades battling in court, lead plaintiff Mitch Goldstone, CEO and owner of the small film scanning business Scan My Photos, has bested major banks and credit card companies Visa and Mastercard.
Photographer Lynn Goldsmith may have won her intellectual property case at the United States Supreme Court against the Andy Warhol Foundation, but her victory came at grievous financial cost.
Multiple times over the last several years, PetaPixel has reported what was at one point known as the National Geographic Fine Art Galleries, then the National Gallery of Fine Art. The business is now a shell of its original promise. This is the full story of what happened.
Australian aerial photographer Brad Walls has captured a visually compelling photo series that turns a squash court into geometric art from the perspective of his drone.
A federal court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Christian wedding photographer who claimed that providing services to same-sex couples goes against her faith and that New York's human rights law violates her First Amendment rights.
The drone equipment retailer RaceDayQuads (RDQ) is in the midst of a legal battle with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in a case that has the potential to shake up the commercial drone operations and manufacturing industry.
Last week, photographer Gregory Mango won an important lawsuit against online publication BuzzFeed; it's important, not because of the payout involved, but because of the precedent set by the court, which ruled that BuzzFeed was liable for 3rd party infringement of his photo because they removed his copyright info from the image.
In a controversial ruling that has sparked criticism from photojournalists across the US, a judge in Seattle has ruled that the local news media must hand over unpublished protest photos to the police, who will use them in an ongoing investigation into the destruction of several police vehicles on May 30th.
A court in the Netherlands has ordered a woman to delete all of the photos of her grandchildren that she's posted on Facebook and Pinterest without their parents permission. The ruling, handed down last week, is calling into question what qualifies as "purely personal" usage in the age of social media.
The Swiss camera brand ALPA has won a copyright infringement case in China against counterfeiters who copied the company's designs. In its ruling, the Chinese court acknowledged that ALPA cameras are "objects of applied art" that are worthy of protection.
A federal court has tossed a photographer's claim of copyright infringement against a major online publication that embedded her Instagram photo against her wishes. The court concluded that the photographer signed over the right of embedding by posting the shot to the photo sharing service.
“American Chopper” star Paul Teutul has lost a copyright infringement lawsuit and is being ordered by a judge to pay the photographer over a quarter of a million dollars for using photos without permission.
Earlier this week, supermodel Gigi Hadid's lawyers successfully got a copyright case against her dismissed despite the fact that most people thought this was a clear cut case of infringement. The important question for photographers now is: how did her lawyers manage to pull this off?
The CASE Act, a major piece of legislation that would introduce a small claims court for copyright infringement cases, has officially been passed by Senate Judiciary Committee, clearing the way for a full vote on the Senate floor.
A Virginia federal court has made a decision that photographers won't be happy to hear: the court ruled that finding a photo on the Internet and then using it without permission on a commercial website can be considered fair use.
An angry bride has been ordered to pay a wedding photographer C$115,000 (~$89,000) by a Supreme Court judge in Canada. The court ruled that the woman had defamed the photographer through her online posts that trashed the wedding photography business.
The well-known German international photo book publisher Steidl has been ordered by a German court to return 49 lost proofs of the man's photos.
A new landmark ruling by a federal court has affirmed that the FAA holds a greater say in drone regulations than local governments across the United States.
French President Emmanuel Macron has filed a legal complaint against a photographer who he claims infringed upon his "right to privacy." The photographer is being accused of taking "holiday snaps" of the president and his wife in Marseille this week.
Heads up: if you're the new owner of a camera drone in the United States and you're not planning to fly the drone commercially, you no longer have to register the drone with the FAA. That's the decision handed down today by a federal court in Washington, D.C.
Getty Images has filed their official response to Carol Highsmith's highly-publicized $1 Billion copyright claim against the company. And the gist of the response is, in essence, "no take backsies."
A wildlife photographer in Singapore was slapped with charges this week for baiting endangered eagles with air-injected live fish in order to capture action shots.
In a surprise decision in the US court system, a federal judge ruled last Friday that photographing and filming police officers isn't always protected by the First Amendment.
Germany is known to have some of the strictest privacy laws in Europe, and sometimes the policies trump photography rights and copyright. The country's highest court just ruled that a photographer must delete "intimate" photos of his ex-lover -- pictures that were consented to when they were created and which the man had no intention of sharing.
A 68-year-old UK man has won a lawsuit against Apple after having his precious photos accidentally deleted during a repair visit to the company's Regent Street Apple Store in London.
A New York Police Department officer has been convicted of a felony for lying about the arrest of a New York Times photographer back in 2012.
Sex offenders have the 1st Amendment right to photograph children in public. That's what a state Court of Appeals in Wisconsin ruled on Tuesday, striking down a law that make it illegal for registered sex offenders to take ordinary pictures of kids in public without getting permission from the parents.
If you find that someone is using your photo online without your permission, one thing you can do is send a DMCA take down request to force the hosting company to remove the image. But be careful, though: you need to make sure the usage doesn't fall under fair use. Otherwise, you could be liable for sending a bad-faith take-down notice.
Photographers, be warned: if you share a photo online with a Creative Commons license that allows for commercial usage, you need to be okay with if that actually happens. A photographer named Art Dragulis just learned that lesson by losing a copyright infringement lawsuit.
Three years ago, a woman named Felicia Anderson won a judgement against the city of Atlanta after she was arrested while photographing the arrest of a neighbor. She later complained that the city had largely ignored the court order. This week a judge agreed with her and held Atlanta in contempt for not taking steps to uphold photographers' rights.