Law

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.

Tech conglomerate Meta will lose its grip on at least one app it has taken over: Giphy.

A Dutch court has ruled that a U.S.-based software company violated an employee's human rights after it forced him to keep his webcam on while working.

The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments for the Warhol v. Goldsmith copyright case, the ramifications of which will have a dramatic effect on photographers.

It finally happened: The European Parliament (EP) voted to make almost all electronics USB-C compatible.

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.

We need to talk about copyright law. Now before your eyes glaze over and I lose you, I promise what I have to say is worth hearing.