Law

A professional photographer is suing a New York City socialite and former client for getting him jailed on false charges and destroying his once-promising career.

An energy drinks company has sued a competitor for allegedly copying its ad campaign with Kim Kardashian and creating a nearly identical photo with a different model.

Illinois has become the first state in the U.S. to pass a new law designed to protect children who are influencers or who appear in their parents' social media content.

Online education platform MasterClass has been accused of using a tracking tool to transmit certain customer information to Meta for the purposes of advertising without users' consent.

Bella Hadid has been sued by a photographer who claims to have screenshotted their photo being used without permission on the supermodel's Instagram story.

Since it has seen deployment by police, facial recognition has caused no less than six people to be wrongfully and accused and arrested for crimes they did not commit, yet the technology continues to be used.

TikTok users in Europe will soon be able to opt out of its powerful content-selection algorithm as the app prepares to comply with the European Union's (EU) new Digital Services Act (DSA).

Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta began removing news links on both sites in Canada this week.

A disgruntled customer has sued Taco Bell after his Mexican Pizza did not look like the one advertised in the company's promotional photos.

A father is suing a hospital after staff allegedly posted photos of his dying son on Instagram and treated him "like an art exhibit."

A photographer is seeking compensation in a court of law after alleging that the cannabis website Leafly used his photos of rappers Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur.

Seven leading artificial intelligence (AI) firms will meet with President Biden today when they will agree to a set of commitments to manage the harmful risks associated with generative AI.

Instagram has beaten a class of photographers in a lawsuit that claimed the Meta-owned platform contributes to copyright infringement by letting outside websites embed images.

A photography dealer from Michigan has pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud related to a scheme involving more than 10 clients and about $1.5 million in art, including Ansel Adams photographs.

China has announced new rules on generative artificial intelligence (AI), mandating that the technology must follow "core values of socialism."

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been called to testify about the complicity of its social media platforms in facilitating an "extraordinary" number of human trafficking cases.

Yesterday at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright, Stability AI head of public policy Ben Brooks admitted to using "billions" of images without asking the copyright owner's consent to train the AI image generator Stable Diffusion.

U.S. lawmakers are considering making changes to the bill that would give the Biden administration new powers to ban Chinese-owned TikTok -- after the company's "aggressive lobbying."

A judge in Canada has ruled that a "thumbs up" emoji not only constitutes an agreement to a contract, but is no less binding than an actual signature.

Two freelance photographers have filed a lawsuit over injuries they suffered after alleging police unlawfully shot them with rubber bullets as they covered the 2020 protests.

Shutterstock says customers using its artificial intelligence (AI) image generators will be offered full indemnification, protecting them from potential claims against the use of the images.

As part of a broader justice reform bill, French lawmakers have given French police the legal authority to spy on suspects by remotely activating cameras, microphones, and GPS location functionality on a person's smartphone and other connected devices.

A famed music photographer has sued Getty Images for allegedly selling some of his most iconic images without entering into an agreement with him.

A photographer who paid $50,000 to an agency that promised to drastically grow her business by among other things, providing 100,000 Instagram followers, has sued after allegedly seeing no uptick in business.

TikTok has admitted to quietly bankrolling a high-profile lawsuit brought by its users against Montana's state-wide ban on the video-sharing app -- a detail that the company failed to mention previously.

The United States Copyright Office (USCO) has doubled down on its stance regarding artificial intelligence (AI), stating unequivocally that it will not register works generated entirely by AI.

A new report has revealed how child safety investigators are struggling to stop thousands of disturbing artificial intelligence (AI) generated "child sex" images that are being created and shared across the web.

A new law that means all artificial intelligence (AI) generated photos and videos must be labeled is being considered in the U.K.

Last week, the BeBop Corporation, the owners of Madavor Media, filed a lawsuit against online rental studio platform Giggster for $25 million, alleging breach of contract and fraud over the sale of Madavor Media's photo properties, including Outdoor Photographer and Imaging Resource.

Apple is reportedly flexing its legal muscle in several countries around the world in order to secure intellectual property rights to images of actual apples, the kind that you eat.

In 2022, an AI-generated work of art won the Colorado State Fair’s art competition. The artist, Jason Allen, had used Midjourney – a generative AI system trained on art scraped from the internet – to create the piece. The process was far from fully automated: Allen went through some 900 iterations over 80 hours to create and refine his submission.

The BeBop Corporation has sued online rental studio platform Giggster for $25 million, alleging breach of contract and fraud over the sale of multiple photo publications including Outdoor Photographer and Imaging Resource.

Texas Governor Greg Abbot has signed a bill into law this week that prevents anyone under the age of 18 from joining a large number of social media sites without first getting parental consent.

A photographer has filed a personal injury lawsuit after being seriously injured in a devastating helicopter crash to a wedding day photoshoot -- which effectively ended her career.

Kanye West has been sued by a photographer for allegedly using her photo without permission to taunt a Vogue Editor on Instagram last year.

The murder trial of a photographer who was killed while at Twin Peaks in San Francisco has ended in a hung jury.

Viral face-swap app Reface is facing a lawsuit for commercially exploiting photos of celebrities.

In the first such declaration of its kind, Japan has seemingly asserted that it will not enforce copyrights when it comes to training generative artificial intelligence (AI) programs.

According to a Meta spokesman, Facebook and Instagram will block news articles in California if state lawmakers pass a proposed bill, the California Journalism Preservation Act.

Kanye West is being sued by a photographer after the rapper threw her phone into the street during an encounter earlier this year.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has charged home security camera company Ring with customer privacy violations, including allowing any employee or contractor to access consumers' private videos.

A photographer has brought a civil lawsuit against NFL star Davante Adams after he shoved the media worker to the ground last October -- he has also named two NFL teams.

Meta has been hit with a record-setting $1.3 billion fine from European Union (EU) regulators early Monday and was ordered to stop transferring data on EU residents to the United States.

A photographer has filed a lawsuit against the XFL accusing the football league of using her photos without compensating her.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have reportedly sent a legal demand to a photo agency ordering that it hand over images taken during what the couple said was a “near-catastrophic” car chase.

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.