Minors in Washington state can face child pornography charges if they send sexually explicit photographs of themselves to another person, the state’s high court ruled Thursday.
Read moreA nature photographer and animal rights group settled their two-year dispute over the ownership of a monkey’s selfies on Monday, just as the Ninth Circuit was mulling an appeal in the case.
Read moreA freelance photographer from Queens has sued supermodel Gigi Hadid, claiming she posted his copyrighted work on Instagram for her 35 million followers, after cutting off his credit for it.
Read moreTelemundo Network Group faces a federal copyright complaint over its article on an Instagram-famous feline named Samson.
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A photojournalist sued Breitbart News Network Tuesday, accusing the far-right media company of repeatedly using a photograph he took at a Berkeley student protest in 2015 without his permission.
Read moreThe photographer for a small Ohio news organization who employees say was shot by a sheriff’s deputy who mistook his camera for a weapon is uninterested in seeing the officer punished.
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A French court on Tuesday fined photographers and gossip magazine executives over topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge. The court also ordered the defendants to pay damages to Kate and her husband Prince William, but the amount was significantly lower than that sought by the royal family.
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The French president’s press office says Emmanuel Macron has filed a legal complaint against a photographer who allegedly was spotted on the property where he is vacationing and also followed his motorcade.
Read morePictures that recently surfaced from a California Judicial Council office Halloween party have ignited a firestorm of criticism from the Legislature, as lawmakers and other groups condemned council staff for dressing up in prison garb in a display that prompted accusations of insensitivity to the social issues of race and gender identity.
Read moreInvestors in a planned documentary about the rock band The Black Keys claim in a federal complaint that a famous photographer scuttled the project after holding the footage ransom.
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Three photographers appeared in a French court Tuesday over topless photographs of the Duchess of Cambridge, an alleged invasion of privacy that outraged Britain’s royal family.
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Social media and blogging community LiveJournal must go to trial over allegations that it broke the law by posting copyrighted celebrity photos online, the Ninth Circuit ruled.
Read moreSouth Dakota is poised to become the second-to-last state in the nation to make mugshots part of the public record, pending a new law awaiting the governor’s signature.
Read moreDavid Spade has sued famed photographer Peter Beard and Beard’s former gallery owner over a “monumental” artwork the comic actor bought that he believed should be worth $500,000 but may be worthless.
Read moreA class claims in Chicago federal court that the online photo service Shutterfly collects and stores “scans of face geometry” for every person who appears in a photograph, even if the person is not a Shutterfly user.
Read moreA photographer claims in court that former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour’s book on Hurricane Katrina includes copyrighted images of the deadly 2005 storm that he has refused to remove from the book, social media and book-signing appearances.
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