Just days after a group of TikTok users filed a lawsuit against Montana seeking to overturn the state's controversial legislation to ban the popular social media app, TikTok itself has sued Montana over the new law.
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.
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 new report by The Guardian reveals Facebook and Instagram have become marketplaces for child sex trafficking and parent company Meta is struggling to take sufficient action to prevent criminals from using its platforms.
Montana’s legislature just passed a bill that would force app stores like the Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store to ban TikTok in the state, making it likely to be the first in the U.S. to ban the social media site.
A Florida state bill filed in 2020 and passed in 2021 goes into effect this week and has banned government agencies from using any drones that were manufactured in China. Some agencies aren't happy and say it unnecessarily increases costs.
On April 4, 2023, former President Donald Trump arrived at the Manhattan Criminal Court for his arraignment. Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Michael Santiago was there waiting and he shares his thoughts on capturing the historic moment.
Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI says that it has scraped more than 30 billion photos from social media platforms, and it is being used by more than 2,400 law enforcement agencies around the United States.
A man has been fined £3,000 (about $3,604) and given a six-month suspended prison sentence after he was found guilty of flying a drone too close to a "priceless" World War II-era plane last summer.
A new bill would give United States President Joe Biden the power to outright ban TikTok, a move that the American Civil Liberties Union says would violate free speech rights.
The European Commission, the executive power of the European Union (EU), has banned its staff from using TikTok over security fears.
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.
Canon USA has agreed to settle claims regarding the data breach it suffered in August of 2020 and will pay affected employees cash for compromising their personal data.
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.
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."
An audit of a University of California professor found that he spent $404,000 of state funds over the course of several years to purchase camera equipment he used to make posts on Instagram and to sell prints on his personal website.
Tech startup BOOM, which said it wanted to be the "Amazon for photography," has allegedly failed to pay photographers that it inherited from its acquisition of LemonOne due to financial difficulties.
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.
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.
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.
Former Chief White House photographer Pete Souza says he is being threatened with legal action over the use of his own photo that he took of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
We need to talk about copyright law. Now before your eyes glaze over and I lose you, I promise what I have to say is worth hearing.
Zillow, which was found to have violated real estate photography company VHT's copyright when it used thousands of photos without permission, is arguing the photos should be treated as a group and not individually.
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.
A wedding studio has closed its doors leaving a team of photographers and videographers without thousands of dollars in owed payments and hundreds of couples without imagery from their big day.
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.
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.
A photographer has sued Google for copyright infringement alleging that YouTube failed to remove his unauthorized images from the website.