A court in Luxembourg has ruled in favor of U.S. photographer Jingna Zhang who accused painter Jeff Dieschburg of making an exact copy of her photograph. The ruling overturns a previous decision in 2022 that favored Dieschburg. [Read More]
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A German court has ruled against a photographer who sued the AI image dataset company LAION in a case that could have big implications. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2024-10-01 14:23
A court has ruled that Harvard University can be sued over a series of photographs that depict enslaved people by a woman who is a descendent of the subjects. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-06-24 19:31
A Virginia federal court has made a decision that photographers won’t be happy to hear: the court ruled that finding a photo on the Internet and then using it without permission on a commercial website can be considered fair use. petapixel.com »
2018-07-02 22:11
Belarus photographer Anton Motolko received two unpleasant surprises last week. First, he lost a seemingly straightforward copyright suit against a state-run television network; and second, he found out he lost that battle because his photo “has no artistic merit whatsoever” according to an “expert witness. petapixel.com »
2016-09-14 21:39
A court has ruled that an artist accused of copying a photographer's work did not commit plagiarism.
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On Saturday, PetaPixel ran the story of a photographer whose photo had been imitated to a surprisingly thorough degree by a German ad agency. While a poll on that article suggested that a clear majority (~74%) of respondents saw it as unethical plagiarism, I thought I’d dig into the legal aspects a bit. (For clarity’s […]