The stunning burst of media — including the first-ever audio recording on the desert planet — captured by Perseverance provides a front-row view of the barren planet where scientists hope to uncover evidence of ancient life.
Read moreA freelance photographer who was shot with rubber bullets during Black Lives Matter protests in Phoenix claims in his lawsuit against Maricopa County that he was a victim of the “same police brutality that the protesters were on the streets attempting to resolve.”
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Former California Democratic Congresswomen Katie Hill, whose promising political career unraveled in 2019 after she was accused of inappropriate relationships with staffers and various media outlets published nude and sexually graphic photos of her, said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the world is watching her ex-husband’s “revenge vendetta.”
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A news and photography agency has agreed not to take pictures of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and their son, Archie, the High Court in London was told at a hearing Friday.
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Texas photojournalists have cleared a major hurdle in their lawsuit seeking to overturn the state’s restrictions on drone photography at prisons, sports arenas and other newsworthy locations and events.
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France’s lower house of parliament is opening debate Tuesday on a security bill that would permit the imprisonment of people who publish images of police officers with intent to cause them harm.
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The white St. Louis couple pictured waving guns at Black Lives Matter protesters this summer are suing United Press International and the photographer who took the now-infamous photo, claiming he didn’t have permission to snap the picture and then sell it online.
Read moreA photojournalist who was injured at the Sugar Bowl in 2019 by the University of Texas’ mascot Bevo is suing the longhorn’s owners and handlers for gross negligence. The steer rammed its horns into the photographer’s back, permanently injuring his neck and back.
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Officials in Finland have proposed updating sexual offences laws to make sending unsolicited explicit photographs punishable by up to six months in prison, the justice ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.
Read moreTwo Illinois residents accuse the Discovery Channel, a production company and others of violating a nondisclosure agreement and misappropriating 24 years of research to authenticate the last photograph of President Abraham Lincoln, taken on his deathbed. The network intends to air “Undiscovered: The Lost Lincoln,” based on plaintiffs’ work, on Oct. 4.
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Vanessa Bryant, the widow of NBA star Kobe Bryant, filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles County sheriff claiming his agency knew deputies shared photos of the helicopter crash site where her husband, their 13-year-old daughter and seven others died this past January.
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A Malaysian student whose cellphone was stolen while he was sleeping has tracked down the culprit: a monkey who took photo and video selfies with the device before abandoning it.
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A photographer’s copyright suit over Andy Warhol’s 1984 Prince series appeared to hit the rocks Tuesday at the Second Circuit where one of the judges invoked another of Warhol’s Pop art prints.
Read moreA federal court dismissed a photographer’s suit against HuffPost for its use of his picture of actor Jon Hamm walking down the street wearing trousers but “ostensibly without any underwear.” HuffPost’s republication was fair use.
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What does broccoli have to do with mankind’s understanding of dark matter, one of the universe’s greatest mysteries? Stanford University published a 3,200-megapixel picture of Romanesco broccoli on Tuesday, among the first images made to test camera sensors designed to record the night sky.
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Turkey’s coronavirus tracking app is facing fire from privacy advocates for adding a feature allowing users to report social distancing rule violations, with the option to send photos.
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A federal judge has issued a ruling preventing the city of Louisville from enforcing an anti-discrimination law against a wedding photographer who claims that the ordinance prevents her from refusing to photograph a same-sex wedding.
Read moreA federal court in California dismissed a patent action brought by business communication platform Slack against web app Phoji for lack of jurisdiction. Phoji enables users to create custom photo-based emojis.
Read moreTOKYO (AP) — When Tokuso Hamai saw the colorized version of an old black-and-white photo of a picnic held under
Read moreA resident of Bloomington, Minnesota, who describes herself as a “point person for delivering neighborhood concerns” to officials lost her suit challenging the city’s child photography ordinance and the state’s harassment statute in federal court. The woman was interviewed by police after she was reported for photographing children — who attend a charter school within an Islamic center — during their recess in a public park.
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