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.
A cybersecurity software company claims that photo-sharing app BeReal owns the rights to users' photos for "30 years."
An aviation photographer was left stunned after he was detained by American Airlines staff for taking photos inside the cabin.
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the photographer who shot the iconic photo of Uma Thurman on the poster for Pulp Fiction, saying he waited too long to file for copyright infringement.
Delta Airlines is the latest in a long line of companies who have egregious overreaching rights grabs baked into a program that uses Instagram hashtags. The company claims massive rights to any images that are tagged using #SkyMilesLife.
Hudson Yards, the largest private real estate development in the United States (by square footage) just opened to the public in New York City, and the centerpiece of the Yards is a permanent art installation and giant public structure called Vessel. It's a 16-story landmark with 154 flights of stairs that visitors can climb, but beware: by reserving a ticket to Vessel, you hand over rights to photos shot within.
Beloved New York Times photographer and lover of fashion Bill Cunningham left a gaping hole in the photo world when he passed away at 87-years-old in June. There's no way to put a dollar value on what we lost when he passed, but the work he left behind has just been valued at $1 million.
David Jay, founder of PASS and Shoot and Share, is taking some heat yet again after he posted the above status on Facebook.
Did you know that in California, “rights of publicity” are transfered to a celebrity’s heirs after the celebrity dies? …