A nature photographer who was sued over the ownership of “monkey selfie” photos is now asking the Ninth Circuit not to abolish the rights of animals to take people like him to court.
Read moreTwo young women suffered serious injuries after lightning struck them while they were taking selfies in western Germany, officials said Monday.
Read moreThe Victoria & Albert Museum says Paul McCartney has donated 63 photographs taken by his late wife Linda to the museum’s new photography center.
Read moreVirginia’s highest court on Thursday revived a challenge to police storage of data collected by automated license plate readers.
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Animals can’t sue people for breaking copyright laws, the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday, apparently ending a long-fought legal battle over the ownership of monkey selfies.
Read morePhiladelphia Indemnity Insurance Co. claims in a federal complaint that it need not indemnify a family or Hollycal Production, whose drone used to photograph a wedding struck a family member in the eye, blinding her in that eye, because the policy does not cover drones.
Read moreA convicted embezzler whose courthouse appearances led to a series of tabloid spreads filed suit Wednesday against a photographer he says used a camera to bludgeon him.
Read moreAs it faces an onslaught of fresh criticism over its handling of private data, a federal judge urged Facebook on Thursday to look long and hard at its practice of harvesting facial data from online photos.
Read moreA Florida Court Clerk arrested on charges petty theft last fall following an investigation of a nude photo shoot at the Jefferson County Courthouse is suing the state government to get his job back.
Read moreThe New York City Police Department was hit with a class action Friday demanding it stop forcing Muslim women to remove their headscarves for mug shots.
Read moreSpain’s criminal conviction of two men who burned a photograph of the Spanish royal couple during a protest of an official visit by the king violated the men’s right to free expression, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday.
Read moreThe White House announced Friday that President Donald Trump has pardoned a Navy sailor who took photos of classified areas inside a submarine and served a year in federal prison.
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A photographer who took a photo of pre-superstar Michael Jordan for Life magazine, in midair soaring toward the hoop, could not persuade the Ninth Circuit that Nike ripped him off with its “Jumpman” logo.
Read moreA federal judge sparked division in the digital-media realm by finding that media outlets had violated a photographer’s copyright by embedding a tweet that contained his work in a report about New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.
Read moreA case touching on the freedom of the press to report at southern border ports crossed into the Ninth Circuit on Friday, as civil rights advocates argued border officials have placed unconstitutional burdens on photographers and videographers.
Read moreA top University of Connecticut dental school professor was reprimanded over a selfie showing him and several students with two severed heads used for medical research, according to a document obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.
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A wildlife photographer who specializes in bugs and whose work has been featured in the Smithsonian, The Washington Post and National Geographic demands $2.7 million from a pest-control business he accuses of using his work without permission.
Read moreNew York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. sued a paparazzo and a picture agency in federal court, claiming their “coercive” business model is to secretly photograph celebrities from long range, sell the photos for profit, then demand thousands of dollars from the celebrities for purported copyright infringement.
Read moreArizona social workers who removed children from a couple’s home after they had bath-time photos of the kids developed at a Walmart should not be granted immunity, the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday.
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