Muhammad Ali’s Photographer Wins $1.65 Million in Copyright Lawsuit
Muhammad Ali's personal photographer, Michael Gaffney, won a landmark copyright infringement lawsuit against Authentic Brands Group (ABG), securing damages totaling $1.65 million.
Muhammad Ali's personal photographer, Michael Gaffney, won a landmark copyright infringement lawsuit against Authentic Brands Group (ABG), securing damages totaling $1.65 million.
Auction house Sotheby's sold a collection of images by the legendary landscape photographer Ansel Adams for $4,567,680 this week, far exceeding the pre-sale estimate range of $1.7 to $2.8 million. The auction set 41 new records for Ansel Adams sales amid intense bidding.
Former One Direction member Liam Payne died tragically yesterday, October 16th, at the age of 31, after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Shortly after the news of Payne's death broke, celebrity news website TMZ bristled many by posting a cropped photo of Payne's corpse on a wooden deck in the hotel's courtyard.
Award-winning British photojournalist and combat photographer Paul Lowe has died at age 60. He was killed in a stabbing on a popular hiking trail near Los Angeles, and authorities say his 19-year-old son Emir has been arrested for the murder.
A young woman in England who was trampled to death in 2022 by a herd of cows shared a photo of her location with her family before she died, helping authorities find her.
A rare photo of Babe Ruth’s first appearance with the Baltimore Orioles will be presented for sale at Leland’s 2024 Fall Classic Auction and could go for more than $200,000.
Afghanistan's Taliban morality ministry says it will implement a new law that bans any photo that depicts a living thing from being published. This rule applies to everyone, including the media.
Over the weekend, Meta's official Threads account posted a series of AI-generated images of major cities with the Northern Lights overhead along with the line, "You missed the northern lights IRL, so you made your own with MetaAI." It's a stark reminder of the contempt Meta, and much of big tech, have for artists.
Leica is honoring renowned German photographer Herlinde Koelbl with the Leica Hall of Fame Award for her lifetime of photographic achievements. One of Koelbl's photos has also been named the Leica Picture of the Year 2024, and the limited-edition print will be available exclusively at Leica Galleries.
Director Christopher Nolan's next film is set to premiere in the summer of 2026, with an anticipated release in IMAX theaters.
In another blow to the ever-depleting market, UK-based photography magazine N-Photo has published its final issue after 168 editions.
Donald Trump and Taylor Swift are some of the most deepfaked people of 2024, according to a study.
The first-known "romantic" photograph of an interracial couple in the U.S. goes on auction later this month.
Alec Baldwin's film Rust will have its premiere at a cinematography festival next month to honor the movie's cinematographer Halyna Hutchins who was fatally shot on set.
A congressional candidate has come under fire for borrowing his friend's wife and kids to pose for campaign photos.
SpaceX celebrated the achievement of its engineers who have worked for years on technology to "catch" a first-stage Super Heavy Booster by recreating one of the 20th century's most iconic photos, Lunch Atop a Skyscraper.
Hundreds of thousands of people have fallen for a hoax that claims to deny Meta the right to use their photos for training the company's AI.
Renowned photographer Stephen Shore walked out of a lecture after he saw several audience members using their smartphones.
Today at Meta Connect, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads showed off a technology that is capable of fully recreating influencers as AI figures that can be spoken to as if they were the real person.
Award-winning British filmmaker Danny Boyle is making headlines for filming his upcoming zombie movie, 28 Years Later, using an iPhone 15. This is not the first time Boyle has eschewed traditional filmmaking equipment in favor of conforming to a narrative.
Street photographer Bruce Gilden, known for his distinct style and technique, says he'll run out of money in a year, leading some to question the financial viability of a professional photography career.
A report from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has found that major social media and video streaming have been engaged in ‘vast surveillance,’ including of children.
The smash hit FX show Shōgun, based on a book of the same name, impressed viewers with dazzling visuals when it debuted earlier this year. The show earned 18 Emmy Awards this year, setting a new record, including one for "Outstanding Cinematography for a Series (One Hour)."
Photography turned 200 years old today, September 16, according to French photography publication Réponses Photo.
As part of a media tour for the second season of FX's The Old Man, Jeff Bridges appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and the two talk at length about Bridges' love for the Widelux panoramic film camera, which he received as a wedding gift from his wife.
Billionaire Taylor Swift has overcome an affliction all too common for photographers: gear acquisition syndrome, or GAS. The pop superstar has been spotted out and about with boyfriend Travis Kelce, Super Bowl-winning tight end for the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs, with an Olympus E-M10 IV camera in hand.
Earlier this year, Meta -- parent company of Facebook and Instagram -- said it would be adding a notification to images uploaded to its platforms that were made with AI. That rollout went poorly, and now the company is making another update to how it displays that notification, it's second in three months.
The Nikon Zfc, announced in 2021, received a colorful facelift in the form of the Nikon | Heralbony Zfc.
Image rights over a person's likeness are at the center of a legal battle between a production company and Disney-owned Lucasfilm and Lunak Heavy Industries.
A Japanese man is facing two years in prison for secretly filming more than 1,000 women at a hot spring through a homemade rock camera made from clay and plastic.
An original print of a famous portrait of Winston Churchill has been recovered in Italy after it was stolen from an Ottawa, Canada hotel more than two years ago.
The White House News Photographers Association (WHNPA) submitted a letter to the Kamala Harris presidential campaign to complain of what it calls an "unprecedented reduction in access" as its four photographer seats have been reduced to one.
Argentine professional soccer goalie Emiliano "Dibu" Martínez has been accused of slapping a television cameraman during Argentina's defeat in Colombia earlier this week during World Cup qualifying.
Pop megastar Taylor Swift endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for President immediately following last night's Presidential Debate on ABC, citing Donald Trump using AI-generated images to falsely claim that Swift had endorsed the former President.
Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, has admitted to scraping the public photos and text of every Australian adult Facebook or Instagram user dating back nearly 20 years.
Namibia is planning to kill more than 700 wild animals, including elephants, zebras, and hippos, and distribute the meat to the people struggling with food insecurity as the country grapples with its worst drought in 100 years.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) says that historical landmarks are at risk of being destroyed as a result of "selfie-tourism."
International pop star Dua Lipa has been a film photography enthusiast for years and has launched a new 35mm underwater film camera to celebrate the tour for her latest album, Radical Optimism.
MySpace, once the biggest social network on Earth, faded into obscurity after Facebook took the world by storm. That's the widely held belief, anyway. But according to CEO Tim Vanderhook of Viant, the company that bought MySpace in 2011, that's not what happened at all.
Becca Farsace has been the face and mind behind much of The Verge's photography coverage for years, including the publication's "Full Frame" podcast and camera reviews. However, this week, Farsace left to venture out on her own for reasons that hit close to home for many content creators.
In the Massachusetts Mashpee River Reservation and Woodlands, locals are grappling with conservation agents over the presence of personal trail cameras mounted to trees. Some have complained their existence is creepy while those who placed them say their civil rights are being violated if the cameras are removed.
For American politicians, photo ops are a significant part of their campaigning efforts. Former President and 2024 Republican nominee Donald Trump is no stranger to them, but one on Monday, August 26, at Arlington National Cemetery's Section 60 has proved especially controversial.
Journalists in Venezuela are under increased scrutiny amid a shift towards dictatorship under President Nicolás Maduro -- but they aren't giving up. Instead, they're deploying AI stand-ins to report the news while avoiding the spotlight.
People pay big money for wedding photographers and videographers, and with good reason. There's no substitute for a talented, experienced team on a couple's big day. However, strapping a GoPro to a dog can be a fun addition to the imaging team, as a talented pooch in the United Kingdom demonstrated this month.
EE, one of the United Kingdom's largest mobile network providers, issued new guidelines that advise against giving children under the age of 11 access to smartphones, instead suggesting that they only be given phones that can make calls and send texts.
RR Auction held an Apple-themed auction last week focused on the legendary late Steve Jobs and Apple's role in the computer revolution. The auction achieved a total of $983,096 in sales.
German painter Melvin Werner has achieved significant popularity thanks to his incredible paintings that look like photographic negatives.
A North Carolina woman is suing members of the North Carolina State Board of Elections concerning the state's laws banning photos of official ballots, including "ballot selfies."
Since digital image editing tools like Adobe Photoshop hit the scene in the late 1980s, there have been heightened concerns about whether photos can be trusted. This long-time worry has become an increasingly common refrain among artificial intelligence's most ardent defenders, but it doesn't serve as a sound defense against criticisms of AI.
The Flip Video cameras took the world by storm in 2006. And like most storms, damage was left in Flip's wake to the tune of a $300 million loss. YouTube creator Krazy Ken of Computer Clan takes a deep dive into the wild story of Flip's dizzying heights and shocking lows in his newest video.