Law

A group of TikTok users filed a lawsuit against Montana seeking to overturn the state's ban of the video app -- which was the first-of-its-kind in the nation.

Montana has officially become the first state to completely ban Chinese-owned video app TikTok in the U.S.

Prince George's County Public Schools in Maryland has become the latest U.S. school district to sue Meta and TikTok for allegedly contributing to the mental health crisis among young people in recent months.

Two professional photographers have scored early victories in a pair of long-running copyright lawsuits against artist Richard Prince for his controversial Instagram-sourced New Portraits series.

Mac Star Cameras and Electronics in Corona, California, was robbed last month and newly released security footage from inside the store shows 13 people ransacking the store and making off with around $65,000 worth of products in about three minutes.

A former top executive at TikTok's parent company ByteDance has claimed that it built a "backdoor channel" in its code that allowed the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) access to user data in the U.S. in a new lawsuit.

A YouTuber has come clean about crashing his airplane on purpose as he faces jail for obstructing a federal investigation by cleaning up the wreckage himself.

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.

Minnesota has advanced a bill to criminalize the sharing of sexual and political deepfakes -- as lawmakers across the U.S. rush to combat the rise of artificial intelligence (AI).

A photographer will get a $105,000 payout from the City of Atlanta after being arrested during the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest in 2020.

Tesla sensationally tried to claim that a seven-year-old video (above) of the company's CEO Elon Musk may be an artificial intelligence (AI) generated deepfake in a wrongful death lawsuit.

TikTok reportedly tracked users who watched gay content on the platform and put them on a secret list.

The Camera Store (TCS), one of the most popular camera, lens, and photography equipment retailers in western Canada, suffered a break-in this morning, May 3, and over $30,000 worth of Sony, Nikon, and DJI equipment was stolen.

Vice President Kamala Harris and top government officials will meet with chief executives from Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic at the White House later this week to discuss artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

Democrats introduced a bill today (Tuesday) that would require political ads to disclose the use of artificial intelligence (AI).

Japan is introducing its first nationwide laws to criminalize exploitative "photo voyeurism."

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 man in Quebec, Canada has been sentenced to three years in prison for using artificial intelligence (AI) to generate images of child pornography -- the first ruling of its kind in the country.

A bipartisan bill has been introduced in the United States Senate that, if passed, would require all children under the age of 18 to receive parental consent to use social media and would forbid the use of algorithms on that age group.

All charges have been dropped against actor Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the film set for Rust.

A photojournalist is being sued by the city of Los Angeles for publishing hundreds of images of undercover officers that were accidentally given to him by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).

An Italian holiday town has introduced hefty fines for tourists who linger "too long" to take selfies in popular photography spots.

Artificially intelligent (AI) image generators Stable Diffusion and Midjourney have asked a U.S. federal court to dismiss a group of artists' class-action lawsuit against them -- arguing that that the AI-created pictures were not comparable to their work.

Rapper Cam'ron has been sued for allegedly using an iconic photo of him wearing a pink fur coat on a slew of merchandise without the photographer's permission.

Facebook users who had an account anytime between May 2007 and December 2022 might be among the tens of millions of users who are entitled to a cash payment from the social media platform.

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.

Tesla has been hit with a class-action lawsuit following a report that its employees privately shared images and videos captured by the cameras built into the company's popular electric vehicles.

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.

German technology and stock photography company EyeEm has reportedly filed for bankruptcy and is insolvent.

A family is suing Netflix for using images of their house that were allegedly taken by a drone in an advertisement for a reality television show.

A wedding photographer, who is accused of withholding payments to other photographers and not delivering images to couples, has been charged with theft.

Utah's Governor Spencer Cox has signed two new laws in the state which require those under the age of 18 to get parental consent in order to access social media, sets a 10:30 PM curfew for its use, and bans "addictive" design.

China says it would "firmly oppose" any forced sale of TikTok in order to avoid a nationwide ban in the U.S.

Police officers have sued rapper Afroman for improperly using images and footage from a botched raid on his Ohio home last year in his music videos.

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew today told Congress that Chinese parent company ByteDance may still have access to U.S. data as the video-sharing app attempts to prevent a potential nationwide ban.

The FBI is now investigating TikTok for spying on U.S. journalists -- as the popular video-sharing app faces a nationwide ban.

An artist, whose work has been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, escaped a copyright infringement lawsuit over her unlicensed use of an iconic photograph of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The Biden administration has demanded that the Chinese-owned TikTok be sold or the app will face a nationwide ban in the U.S.

The U.S. Copyright Office has warned that an image generated solely from a text prompt does not qualify for human authorship in fresh guidance released yesterday.

TikTok may split from its Chinese parent company ByteDance, to help address U.S. concerns about national security risks.

High school students allegedly broke no laws when they created an artificially intelligent (AI) deepfake video of a principal shouting racist slurs and threatening Black students.

The White House backed a congressional bill that would give the Biden administration new powers to ban TikTok and other foreign technologies that could pose security threats.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has today released a report pushing for the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

Artificially intelligent (AI) surveillance camera technology that can find out who a person's friends are and is used in China to track citizens is now available in the U.S.

The Copyright Claims Board (CCB) has made its first final decision with a photographer awarded $1,000 for a copyright infringement.

The possibility of a national TikTok ban continues to grow as U.S. Senators push a bill that will help "ban or prohibit" foreign technology such as the Chinese-owned video app.

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.

Vanessa Bryant, the widow of NBA legend Kobe Bryant, has reached a settlement of close to $30 million with Los Angeles County over leaked graphic photos of the helicopter crash that killed the basketball player and their 13-year-old daughter Giann.