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A photographer has filed a copyright infringement claim against an artist who allegedly replicated her photograph as a painting.

Two developers have created artificial intelligence (AI) software that generates photorealistic police sketches using DALL-E.

In one of the first intellectual property cases brought to federal court that deals with non-fungible tokens (NFTs), fashion brand Hermes has won a copyright lawsuit against an artist who created NFT versions of its Birkin bags.

The U.S. Copyright Office has told a federal judge that artificial intelligence (AI) artwork can't be protected.

Canon successfully saw the removal of over 1,500 Amazon listings of third-party printer toner from vendors that it believed infringed on its patents as part of an aggressive campaign to protect its intellectual property.

Getty Images believes that the AI image generator Stable Diffusion has stolen over 12 million of its copyrighted photos. The photo agency has filed a lawsuit against the company and is seeking up to $150,000 per infringement, or up to $1.8 trillion.

Canon USA has agreed to settle claims regarding the data breach it suffered in August of 2020 and will pay affected employees cash for compromising their personal data.

Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) has issued a written demand to the CEOs of Google and Apple to remove TikTok from their company's app stores due to the possibility that China's government could "weaponize" the app against the United States.

The Missouri Department of Conservation is looking to scrap permits and fees for commercial photographers in conservation areas.

In late 2021, ARRI launched legal proceedings to challenge the validity of multiple patents related to lighting effects, claiming that many were erroneously granted for technical solutions that weren't actually new. It has today withdrawn that complaint with regard to Rotolight.

A wedding photography studio that suddenly closed and refused to offer refunds to hundreds of clients has been ordered to pay over $800,000 in restitution to customers.

Jay-Z has settled a lawsuit with a photographer over images that he was selling of the rapper -- claiming that he made an “arrogant assumption that because he took those photographs, he can do with them as he pleases.”

A photographer who sued a hospitality tech company for removing copyright metadata from his photos before posting them on travel websites, has been denied an appeal to a lower court's dismissal of his case.

Actor Alec Baldwin will be charged with involuntary manslaughter over the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the film set for Rust.

Tech company executives could face jail time in the United Kingdom if their social media platforms knowingly fail to protect children online.

Getty Images is launching legal action against the creators of Stable Diffusion claiming the AI image generator infringed its copyright.

A group of artists has filed a class-action lawsuit against AI image generators Stable Diffusion and Midjourney.

A computer scientist who is trying to obtain copyrights for his artificial intelligence (AI) system has taken his case to a federal court.

A photo agency has filed a $228.9m copyright infringement lawsuit against Twitter after thousands of its photographs were uploaded by users of the social media site.

The European Union (EU) plans to introduce new legislation in 2023 that will force the companies behind AI image generators to be more open about how their models are built.

The public school district in Seattle has filed a lawsuit against the companies behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Snapchat, accusing them of harming young people’s mental health.

TikTok has been banned from all devices owned and managed by the U.S. House of Representatives.

TikTok has admitted that it used its app to spy on American reporters to track down their sources -- as the video-sharing platform faces a potential ban in the U.S.

Federal agents staged an elaborate fake murder photograph to catch a man who they suspected of plotting to kill two business associates to avoid millions of pounds in debt.

Supermodel Bella Hadid is facing a second copyright infringement lawsuit for posting an image of herself on Instagram without a photographer's permission -- a little over a week after a French photo agency also sued her.

Two men have been charged with hacking Amazon Ring cameras and using the devices to livestream "swatting attacks" in a nationwide spree.

A company has been told to pay a photographer $1.2 million after it used his photo of a pigeon for over a decade without compensating him for it.

A photographer is suing Gannett Media for as much as $34 million in damages after hundreds of its news publications allegedly used her image without permission.

The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that bars federal employees from using TikTok on government-issued devices amid national security fears.

Paris Hilton is facing a copyright infringement lawsuit for cropping, editing, and posting photos of herself on Instagram without the photographer's permission.

Model Bella Hadid is facing a copyright infringement lawsuit after she posted an image of herself on Instagram without the photographer’s permission.

A photographer has reportedly been left unable to pay rent after Kanye West failed to pay her $110,000 for a last-minute photo shoot.

Spencer Elden, the man whose photo is on Nirvana’s iconic album Nevermind, is appealing the court's dismissal of his recent lawsuit after he claimed that he was exploited as a child for the cover art.

Rapper Cardi B is being sued for posting a Marge Simpson photograph that allegedly copies another artist's work.

As protests around China’s zero-Covid policy mount, police appear to be searching phones for apps like Instagram, Twitter, and Telegram, which are banned in the country, with the goal of stopping photos of the protests from being released.

The United Kingdom has responded to the advancements in deepfake technology by putting in motion a plan to ban one of its most nefarious use cases: non-consensual deepfake porn.

A group of four robbers, at least one of them armed, stole $178,000 in camera equipment and caused $20,000 in damage to the Leica Store near Union Square in San Francisco over the weekend.

Balenciaga has clarified that it will not be suing the photographer who shot its controversial campaign that featured child models holding teddy bears dressed in bondage gear.

Fujifilm is the subject of a class-action lawsuit that alleges the company falsely advertises its X-Pro3 as having "reliable durability" despite using "defective ribbon connector cables."

An audit of a University of California professor found that he spent $404,000 of state funds over the course of several years to purchase camera equipment he used to make posts on Instagram and to sell prints on his personal website.

Tech startup BOOM, which said it wanted to be the "Amazon for photography," has allegedly failed to pay photographers that it inherited from its acquisition of LemonOne due to financial difficulties.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in the state of California that alleges the serial number stickers on Sony lenses too easily fall off and therefore prevent owners from getting free repairs or taking part in product recalls.

An aviation photographer was left stunned after he was detained by American Airlines staff for taking photos inside the cabin.

A livestreaming photographer has been acquitted by a jury for interfering with police's response to a mass shooting.

Meta has defeated a photographer in a lawsuit that claims Facebook contributes to copyright infringement by letting outside websites embed images shared on the social media platform. However, a San Francisco federal judge has given the photographer permission to file a new complaint.

The United States Department of Justice today revealed that it had formerly charged two suspected Chinese operatives for plotting to disrupt the criminal investigation into Huawei.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Google, alleging that the Silicon Valley tech giant unlawfully captured and used the biometric data of millions of Texans without obtaining their consent.

Miley Cyrus has settled a copyright infringement lawsuit a month after she was sued for posting an image of herself on Instagram without the photographer's permission.

Microsoft and Amazon have won a summary judgment in lawsuits that claim the companies illegally used two U.S. residents' Flickr photos to develop facial recognition software.

A photographer who was awarded a Pulitzer prize for her pictures of India’s coronavirus crisis has been stopped from flying to the U.S. to receive the award.