Law

A federal judge has ruled that images generated with artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be copyrighted while contrasting them with photography.

As reported by WFLA, longtime Florida wedding photographer Michael Zoumberos spent nearly a year in jail for civil contempt because he refused to cooperate with federal investigators concerning a major DEA scandal that included Zoumberos' brother, former DEA agent George Zoumberos.

A major Chinese photo agency is demanding an astrophotographer pay $12,000 to use his own photos after he posted his work to social media platform Weibo. The photographer says he never licensed his photos to the agency.

New York City has banned TikTok on government-owned devices, citing security concerns over its parent company ByteDance’s alleged ties to the Chinese government.

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.