Lawsuit Alleges Lensa.ai App Illegally Took Users’ Biometric Data
A group in Illinois has filed a class action lawsuit against California-based Prisma Labs, the company behind the artificial intelligence-powered photo editing app, Lensa.ai.
Facebook Shut Down Research Firm Investigating Instagram’s Algorithm
Researchers from Germany-based AlgorithmWatch say that Facebook forced them to abandon their research project into Instagram's algorithm after the company came after them with legal threats.
Ancestry.com’s New Terms Allow it to Use Your Family Photos for Anything
On August 3, Ancestry.com -- the largest for-profit genealogy company in the world -- updated its terms and conditions to include new language that gives it the right to use any family photos uploaded to its system for anything it likes, forever and without limits.
Photo Assignments Postponed: Take These 6 Steps Now To Protect Yourself
As you know, things are getting crazy out there and our photo assignments are being postponed or canceled due to the coronavirus. Are you prepared to answer the question “what will it cost to cancel?”? Let’s talk about our terms and conditions (T&C).
NYC’s New Vessel Landmark Has a Big Photo Copyright Grab
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.
Kodak’s Kodakit Asks Photographers to Give Up the ‘Entire Copyright’
Kodak launched an on-demand photography service called Kodakit back in January 2017 that aims to connect photographers to brands looking for photography. But there's something all photographers need to know about this "Uber of photography," as it's been called: it demands that you sign over the "entire copyright" to the photos you shoot.
Be Wary of the Wellcome Photography Prize
The Wellcome Trust is the world’s second largest charitable trust with an endowment of approximately £23.2 billion (~$30 billion). For the past 20 years, it has produced a photo contest called the Wellcome Image Awards, and this year, it rebranded the contest as the Wellcome Photography Prize.
A Lawyer Rewrote Instagram’s Terms of Use So Kids Can Understand Them
In their recently released report titled "Growing Up Digital," the UK Children's Commissioner did something we wish tech companies would do more of: they had a lawyer "translate" Instagram's Terms of Use into language that children (and their parents) could actually understand.