Law

Photography has been banned inside the courtroom during former President Donald Trump's New York City hush money trial -- after a pool photographer broke a longstanding rule.

The NFL and the Detroit Lions have filed motions to dismiss a photographer's "meritless" lawsuit over the use of his photo of former football star Barry Sanders to design a statue of him.

A photographer in Georgia received a one year probation and a restitution order from a judge after she canceled on a bride just hours before her wedding.

The United States Supreme Court rejected a lower court's ruling that there is a three-year time limit to claim damages from copyright infringement. All claims, even those that occurred decades previously, are fair game as long as the lawsuit is filed within three years of discovery.

A court in Luxembourg has ruled in favor of U.S. photographer Jingna Zhang who accused painter Jeff Dieschburg of making an exact copy of her photograph. The ruling overturns a previous decision in 2022 that favored Dieschburg.

Photographer Jingna Zhang has launched a lawsuit against Google along with three other artists who accuse the search giant of using their copyrighted work in the training of its AI image generator model Imagen.

TikTok officially sued the United States government on Tuesday in an effort to block a new law that requires the app to be sold or face a ban in the country.

The United States government has opened an investigation into whether Arashi Vision Inc, the parent company of Insta360, violated several of GoPro's patents.

A photojournalist arrested while covering a Pro-Palestinian protest at a university had his assault charges dropped following an outcry.

Members of the U.S. Government may push forward with a bill that aims to ban DJI's drones and prevent them from operating at all within the country.

A photographer has sued Megan Thee Stallion for harassment and a hostile work environment -- claiming that he was forced to watch the rapper have sex with another woman right next to him in a car.

The House of Representatives, led by a Republican majority, passed legislation on Saturday that will ban the popular social media app TikTok in the United States if its Chinese owner does not sell its stake in the next year.

In a landmark ruling, a sex offender, who produced over 1,000 indecent images of children, has been banned from using "AI creating tools" in the U.K.

The creation of sexually explicit deepfake images is to be made a criminal offense in the U.K. -- with anyone sharing these images facing the possibility of jail time.

A new bill introduced by Rep. Adam Schiff would require all AI companies to disclose the copyrighted works used in training sets or face a fine.

A photographer has been accused of trespassing into a murder suspect's home as he barricaded himself inside the property during a 12-hour standoff with cops.

Alec Baldwin had "no control" over his emotions and "no concern" for others on the Rust film set before the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, according to prosecutors.

New York City has agreed to pay $17.5 million to thousands of women who say their religious rights were violated when police forced them to remove their hijabs for mugshots.

A photographer is suing Napster for using his image of a musician without the proper license -- in a case that could set a precedent that would require record labels to verify what rights were secured from photographers when their pictures were licensed for use on album covers.

Four school boards in Ontario, Canada have launched a $4.5 billion lawsuit against social media giants Meta, Snapchat, and TikTok for what they describe as negligently designed apps.

Two longtime stalwarts of the film photography industry, Fujifilm and Eastman Kodak, are poised to battle it out in the courts as Fujifilm Corporation filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Eastman Kodak Company in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

To comply with a recent law that restricts how Californian law agencies can share photos and mug shots of suspected criminals, one police force is placing Lego heads on suspects to conceal their identities.

According to people familiar with the matter, the United States Justice Department is preparing a landmark antitrust lawsuit against Apple Inc. The suit, expected to be filed today in a New Jersey federal court, represents the latest in the Biden administration's attempts to deal with monopolization in big tech.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in the United Kingdom has sentenced the first criminal as part of its new Online Safety Act that outlawed sending unsolicited photos of genitalia, otherwise known as "cyberflashing."

Famed fashion photographer Marc Baptiste has been accused of sexually assaulting a model during a shoot 20 years ago.

A human rights photographer who once worked for the Red Cross has been arrested and charged for allegedly being part of a gang that exploited migrants.

The landmark case between The Andy Warhol Foundation and photographer Lynn Goldsmith has finally been resolved with Goldsmith receiving more than $21,000 -- despite forking out "well above $2.5 million" to fight the case.

After European Union lawmakers reached an agreement on the EU's landmark EU AI Act in December, the law cleared its last significant hurdle, achieving European Parliament approval earlier today.

A photographer has emerged victorious after suing a website for using his Creative Commons image without the proper credit.

Celebrity photographer and acting coach Kenneth Howard Dolin was arrested last Monday on suspicion of sexual assault. Now, authorities believe there may be even more victims from his past.

A Florida sheriff issued an apology after a photograph of a dead body was posted to his Instagram account.

An artist has sued the Museum of Sex in New York City for using a photo of them kissing their ex-girlfriend without consent in its ad campaign.

Irish woman Kamila Grabska, 36, has lost a lawsuit she filed against RSA Insurance over alleged injuries sustained in a 2017 car crash. A 2018 photo of Grabska throwing a Christmas tree is at the heart of the legal outcome.

A photographer has sued fashion designer Vera Wang for posting a photo of Emily Ratajkowski on social media without permission.

Several survivors of the October 7 attacks on Israel have sued the Associated Press (AP) for hiring freelance photojournalists who are allegedly "embedded with Hamas."

Rapper Cam'ron has been ordered to pay $50,000 for using an iconic photo of him wearing a pink fur coat on a slew of merchandise without the photographer’s permission.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that the city government filed a lawsuit against five social media platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and YouTube.

There is a lot of talk these days about social media use and its effects on children. It seems that states are proposing and passing laws restricting social media left and right, with California, Texas, and New York, among others, passing social media-related laws last year. Another state, Ohio, attempted to enact a strict law to keep children off of social media without parental consent, and a United States federal judge struck it down this week.

A wildlife photographer has told a court the upsetting story of finding the body of a "murder victim" while out taking pictures.

A wedding photographer must pay $30,000 in civil penalties for advertising her services using images taken by other photographers and failing to disclose that the pictures were not her own.

The European Parliament and European Council reached an agreement Tuesday to criminalize sexually explicit deepfakes, an essential legal milestone as artificially generated images flourish.

The FBI has charged a 44-year-old Pennsylvania man with two felonies after the man allegedly flew a drone over M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, during the AFC Championship Game between the Baltimore Ravens and Kansas City Chiefs on January 28.

A site called "OnlyFake" is allegedly pumping out incredibly realistic images of fake IDs using artificial intelligence -- and the fakes seem to work.

Celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D has posted a long video talking about the recent copyright infringement trial over a Miles Davis tattoo in which she says she is "traumatized" from it.

The Getty Images' Italian website is being forced to remove any content that depicts Michelangelo's David after legal action was brought by the Italian Ministry of Culture.

CEOs of the largest social media companies in the United States testified in front of Congress Wednesday before the lawmakers launched into questions of their own.

Social media has been a bit like the old Wild West; there are few regulations, and, as we are learning, the apps are fraught with potential danger. A pair of proposed California regulations attempt to protect minors, aiming to reduce the impact the platforms can have.

The national and New Jersey chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union filed an amicus brief in support of a man who was reportedly wrongfully arrested after facial recognition misidentified him.