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Smartphone company Tecno has launched its #ToneProud campaign, which seeks to end skin tone bias in imaging technology, an increasingly important issue with the rise of generative AI. [Read More] petapixel.com »
Amazon and Canon have joined forces to file a lawsuit against 18 vendors allegedly selling counterfeit toner cartridges on the Amazon store. [Read More] petapixel.com »
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 »
A lawsuit has already been filed against California's new laws designed to curb AI images and deepfakes.
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With growing fury against its hamfisted approach to labeling photos as "Made with AI", Meta says it is "evaluating" its approach. [Read More] petapixel.com »
India's Election Commission has urged all political parties to avoid using AI-generated deepfakes in the 2024 election.
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Thursday, the United States Justice Department joined 16 states and Washington D.C. in a massive antitrust lawsuit against Apple. [Read More] petapixel.com »
This week, NASA Goddard released a new video that highlights the Landsat program's achievements in 2023. A joint mission between NASA and the United States Geological Survey (USGS), satellite imagers have been orbiting Earth since Landsat 1 was launched in July 1972. [Read More] petapixel.com »
U.S. senators have introduced a bill that would criminalize the spread of nonconsensual deepfake porn -- in direct response to the sexually explicit AI-generated photos of Taylor Swift that went viral last week. [Read More] petapixel.com »
Nikon, Sony, and Canon will all reportedly bring out support for the Content Authenticity Initiative's (CAI) C2PA digital signature system in 2024 as the CAI pivots its messaging as a way to combat AI. [Read More] petapixel.com »
Cara, a new social media and portfolio platform for artists working in the entertainment industry, has launched a collaboration with Glaze to protect artists from style mimicry in generative AI models. [Read More] petapixel.com »
Defunct animated photography app Phhhoto is attempting to revive a lawsuit against Meta -- in which the company accused Instagram of copying its main feature. [Read More] petapixel.com »
Over the last month, communities around the world have felt passionate responses to the developing conflict in Israel, Gaza, and surrounding areas. As simple or complex as one might find the hostilities in the abstract the ripples of geopolitics affect us all, sometimes very obviously, and sometimes subtly. [Read More] petapixel.com »
Scarlett Johansson has taken legal action against an artificial intelligence (AI) app that used her likeness and name in an advertisement without consent. [Read More] petapixel.com »
A judge in California has largely dismissed copyright claims brought by three artists against AI image generators Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and DeviantArt. [Read More] petapixel.com »
A federal judge has ruled that Netflix may have defamed a Kentucky man, Taylor Hazlewood, after the streaming company used a photo of Hazelwood in a true-crime documentary about a convicted murderer. [Read More] petapixel.com »
A moose cow and its calf were recently attacked in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Gustavus, Alaska by a bear and a wolf at the same time. [Read More] petapixel.com »
As AI image generators continue to rock visual industries such as photography and illustration, Nikon is taking a stand against AI and on behalf of humans, cameras, and "natural intelligence." [Read More] petapixel.com »
The BeBop Corporation has sued online rental studio platform Giggster for $25 million, alleging breach of contract and fraud over the sale of multiple photo publications including Outdoor Photographer and Imaging Resource. [Read More] petapixel.com »
The popular r/photography subreddit has gone dark, preventing millions of photographers from accessing vital information.
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Two professional photographers have scored early victories in a pair of long-running copyright lawsuits against artist Richard Prince for his controversial Instagram-sourced New Portraits series. [Read More] petapixel.com »
Amazon and Canon have targeted a large group of "bad actors" that the two companies allege have sold counterfeit camera batteries and chargers to unsuspecting buyers. [Read More] petapixel.com »
RED's lawsuit against Nikon for infringing on its video compression patents has been dismissed, effectively giving Nikon permission to continue allowing compressed internal RAW video recording in its cameras. [Read More] petapixel.com »
All charges have been dropped against actor Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the film set for Rust. [Read More] petapixel.com »
Flickr has updated its community guidelines to combat "copyleft trolling." As described by Cory Doctorow on Pluralistic, this is excellent news for people that use Creative Commons (CC) images from Flickr, even if they make accidental attribution errors. [Read More] petapixel.com »
As the penny drops with photographers and artists alike that their images have been used to train AI image generators on a monumental scale — the backlash is growing stronger. [Read More] petapixel.com »
Artists have staged a mass online protest against image-sharing site ArtStation after artificial intelligence (AI) generated art appeared on the site. [Read More] petapixel.com »
A court has ruled that an artist accused of copying a photographer's work did not commit plagiarism.
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After a spate of lawsuits following the George Floyd protests, relations between police and media have never been more strained, or more complicated. [Read More] petapixel.com »
Meta has defeated a photographer in a lawsuit that claims Facebook contributes to copyright infringement by letting outside websites embed images shared on the social media platform. petapixel.com »
Two photographers will seek to revive a class-action lawsuit against Instagram that claims it contributes to copyright infringement by letting outside websites embed images. [Read More] petapixel.com »
A federal judge has ruled in favor of Pinterest in a lawsuit by a photographer who claimed the company infringed over fifty of his copyrighted works by displaying them alongside advertisements in the form of "promoted pins." [Read More] petapixel.com »
A judge has tossed the defamation portion of a Los Angeles-based photographer's lawsuit that was based on a run-in with Hillary Duff in 2020 where she posted a video on social media and called him a "creep." [Read More] petapixel.com »
UV photography has been used by dermatological laboratories since the era of film photography. This technique was then used by the R&D centers to show the protective properties of dermatological and cosmetic products against UV radiation from the Sun. petapixel.com »
Apple has acknowledged that the way it announced its plans to automatically scan iPhone photo libraries to protect children from abusive content may have introduced “confusion” and explains how it is designed to prevent abuse by authoritarian governments. petapixel.com »
An independent photojournalist that sued the D. C. Police following his arrest for filming a protest in 2020 has won a settlement. During a racial justice protest in August 2020, Kian Kelley-Chung, a local Black journalist and documentarian, was arrested among 40 other people, DCist reports. petapixel.com »
Lensrentals.com has posted their annual report on what gets rented the most over the course of the year, and once again Canon dominates the rankings. Read more... canonrumors.com »
A popular COVID lockdown photo location in Higher Shelf Stones, England has become dangerous for “Instagram Hikers” as winter approaches. Volunteer mountain rescue teams have advised against visiting after being called out multiple times to assist ill-prepared visitors. petapixel.com »
Portraits of participants in the protest on the abortion ban in Szczecin, Poland from October 26th, 2020. Angered women and their supporters blocked rush-hour traffic in many cities of Poland. boredpanda.com »
On Wednesday, thousands of women went out to march against a new law that bans abortion. The protests have been going on for 7 days, with no apparent end in sight. boredpanda.com »
For my ongoing Instagram art project, I pose with cardboard cut-outs at sunset. I call them Sunset Selfies, and I think of them as single-panel cartoons. They all have a caption that tells the story and is half the fun, I think. boredpanda.com »
According to an investigation by the BBC, women with darker skin are more than twice as likely to fail the automated United Kingdom passport rules than fair-skinned men when submitted online through the nation’s automated government checker. petapixel.com »
DigiMedia Tech, LLC, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against yet another camera company, this time going after Nikon over its alleged infringement of three different US patents. This lawsuit follows similar infringement cases brought against Olympus, Fujifilm and JK Imaging, all of them also over the alleged infringement of digital camera technology patents. dpreview.com »
The guys over at DPReview TV recently set out to test the new Canon RF 85mm f/1.2L lens. But instead of simply shooting some samples and talking about sharpness, they decided to pit it against the classic EF-mount version of this same lens so they could see “how far this lens has come.” The video […] petapixel.com »
The US District Court for the Southern District of New York has re-opened the controversial copyright infringement lawsuit filed by photographer Stephanie Sinclair against the publication Mashable, who embedded one of her images through Instagram after she denied their request to license the photo for an article. The dispute stems from a 2016 article titled, […] petapixel.com »
Editor’s note: Veteran photojournalist Yunghi Kim (@yunghi) sent me the following thoughts after the publication of my article about the ethics of showing protestors’ faces. My professional perspective is that there is a problem with the Poynter piece “Photographers are being called on to stop showing protesters faces. Should they?” The headline is as misguided […] petapixel.com »
A federal court has tossed a photographer’s claim of copyright infringement against a major online publication that embedded her Instagram photo against her wishes. The court concluded that the photographer signed over the right of embedding by posting the shot to the photo sharing service. petapixel.com »
Canon just scored a major legal win in the battle against counterfeit products. A US District Court has ruled in Canon’s favor in a lawsuit against two eBay users who were selling counterfeit Canon batteries online. petapixel.com »
Photography is an art and a commercial business. As a black-owned, woman-run business, Judah Avenue is both a passion project and an entrepreneurial breakthrough for me. I quit corporate America to pursue my art. petapixel.com »
Hasselblad. The company that went to the moon. A company known for producing some of the most iconic cameras in history. Since 1948, when Hasselblad produced its first consumer camera, it has built a strong reputation within the industry. petapixel.com »
