Law

Reality TV star NeNe Leakes has been sued by a photographer who claims she was never paid after she was hired to take pictures at her club.

Thanks to new legislation, the San Francisco Police Department can now, without a warrant, gain access to live video feeds from privately owned security cameras in the city under certain circumstances.

Facebook users have sued its parent company Meta for allegedly tracking them via an in-app browser on iOS devices despite the strict Apple privacy policies in place.

Getty Images has announced it will not accept submissions that were created with AI-image generators and will remove all such artworks.

A U.S. paparazzi is suing Australian television network, Channel 7 for defamation over an interview with Meghan Markle's estranged father, in which he claimed that the photographer conspired to set him up and sabotage the royal wedding.

Gavin Newson, the Governor of California, has signed a bill aimed at protecting minors on social media.

The Association of Photographers (AOP) has raised the alarm over the Text and Data Mining copyright exception that the U.K. government plans to introduce.

In May, RED Digital Cinema filed a lawsuit against Nikon, alleging that the data compression technology it uses in the Z9 camera violated its patents. Nikon has responded and argues RED's patent should never have been approved to begin with.

Singer Miley Cyrus is facing a copyright infringement lawsuit after she posted an image of herself on Instagram without the photographer's permission.

A federal judge has halted the controversial new state law in Arizona that bans people from photographing and filming police officers within 8 feet. The new law, which opponents have slammed as a violation of free speech, was to go into effect on September 24th.

Spencer Elden, the man whose photo is on Nirvana's iconic album Nevermind, has lost a lawsuit he brought against the band after Elden claimed he was exploited as a child.

A federal judge ruled yesterday that the city of Louisville, Kentucky, cannot ban a Christian photographer from limiting her wedding photography business to opposite-sex couples.

A court has upheld a National Park Service fee and permit requirement for commercial videography in national parks, overturning a previous ruling that found this requirement to be a violation of First Amendment rights.

The widow of Kobe Bryant has been awarded $16 million in damages in a lawsuit against Los Angeles county over leaked graphic photos of the helicopter crash that killed the NBA star, their 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and seven other victims in January 2020.

Snap has agreed on a settlement of $35 million in an Illinois class action lawsuit over its use of facial recognition.

DJI has announced that it has received the first-ever C1 drone certificate for its Mavic 3 drone series that allows them to be flown in the new A1 Open Air Category without first having to pass the complex and expensive A2 Remote Piloting License exam.

Google flagged photos that a concerned father took of his sick child as child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and sparked a police investigation after it reported him.

Former Chief White House photographer Pete Souza says he is being threatened with legal action over the use of his own photo that he took of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

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A photographer is suing American Airlines (AA) following a bomb scare that allegedly began when another passenger mistook the man's vintage camera equipment for an explosive device during a flight.

Zillow, which was found to have violated real estate photography company VHT's copyright when it used thousands of photos without permission, is arguing the photos should be treated as a group and not individually.

Photography image monitoring and legal-tech service Pixsy has informed users that it suffered what it calls an “IT issue.” While it advises users to change their passwords to secure their accounts, it says no data was compromised.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled in favor of photographer Elliot McGucken who brought a case against Pub Ocean Ltd after they published photos of a lake that had formed in Death Valley without permission.

A cache of child sexual abuse photos has been allegedly shown to TikTok moderators during training. This is according to workers who say they were granted insecure access to illegal photos and videos.

Spanish authorities have found themselves in hot water after publishing photos of five British women in an advertisement without prior permission.

The United States Court of Appeals in D.C. has upheld rules set out by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for Remote ID, a system that provides in-flight identification of drones.

Photo stock agency Dreamstime is tackling copyright infringement by attempting to "educate" violators in the hope they will become legitimate customers.

Epidemic Sound has sued Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta for storing, curating, reproducing, and distributing its music without authorization to the tune of upwards of 80,000 infractions per day.

A longstanding legal battle that surrounds photographs of Pablo Picasso's paintings has just had a fresh twist after the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned a lower court's ruling that reproduction of the images was fair use.

Egypt is set to shift how it regulates photography in public spaces. On the one hand, it will ease restrictions on street photography, but on the other, it will criminalize taking photos that it deems are "offensive to the country."

Facebook-owner Meta today released its first annual human rights report which highlighted "salient risks" associated with its Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses which includes problems such as "informed consent from bystanders."

Technology giant Amazon has admitted to handing over Ring doorbell camera footage to law enforcement at least eleven times this year -- without the owners' permission or a search warrant.

New York has passed a law that will ask those seeing a concealed handgun permit to submit their social media accounts so they can be reviewed for "character and conduct."

A new Arizona law will soon make it illegal for bystanders to record police activity within eight feet. Civil rights activists and national press photographers have condemned the act as a violation of free speech.

A former Facebook employee says he was fired for raising concerns about a new company protocol that allowed staff to access deleted user data and share the information with law enforcement.

A former class of school students was told by a federal judge they can pursue a lawsuit against PeopleConnect after their yearbook photos were published without their permission on the company's social networking site Classmates.com.

Meta has announced that it has filed separate legal actions in federal court against a company and an individual who scraped data from Facebook and Instagram.

Los Angeles Lakers player Kendrick Nunn has been sued for copyright infringement by the same photographer who recently settled a copyright infringement legal battle with Nunn's superstar teammate, LeBron James.

A longstanding dispute over the custody of photos of Prince made it to a federal appeals court last month after the late artist's personal photographer claimed his images were illegally used and stolen by his collaborators.

A photographer has sued Google for copyright infringement alleging that YouTube failed to remove his unauthorized images from the website.

Computer scientists at the University of Groningen have created a system to analyze the noise produced by individual cameras to help law enforcement fight child exploitation.

Two photographers will seek to revive a class-action lawsuit against Instagram that claims it contributes to copyright infringement by letting outside websites embed images.

The estate of legendary hip-hop photographer Chi Modu is suing Universal Music Group (UMG) for copyright infringement over its use of an iconic photo of Tupac Shakur on a blog post.

After claiming paparazzi "weaponize" the copyright act, actress Lisa Rinna has settled her $1.2 million lawsuit with a photo agency after posting images of herself on her Instagram account without prior permission.

Singer Dua Lipa is facing a lawsuit after she posted an image of herself on Instagram without the photographer’s permission, according to a copyright infringement lawsuit.

A court has ruled that Harvard University can be sued over a series of photographs that depict enslaved people by a woman who is a descendent of the subjects.