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]
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A Los Angeles-based photographer has lost his family home in Altadena after the Eaton Fire tore through it and destroyed all of his gear. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2025-01-15 15:48
A photographer says that the Queer Running Club in London dropped him from an arranged gig after he refused to say that he is pro-Palestine. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2024-10-29 20:53
A wildlife photographer has lost an extraordinary $20,000 legal battle over a traffic ticket that came about after he slowed his car to check on a wounded grizzly bear. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2024-06-21 19:24
A wildlife photographer lost $11,000 worth of camera equipment and very nearly his life after falling into a river while shooting wildlife photos. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2024-04-17 15:24
A photographer has lost a lawsuit against Apple over images that appeared in the background of a documentary about singer Billie Eilish -- with a judge calling the usage "too trivial" to be deemed infringing. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2023-10-05 16:12
A wildlife photographer suffered a horrific injury after his heavy-duty tripod snapped shut on his finger, causing a significant amount of permanent damage. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2023-06-12 20:18
A photographer who set up nine cameras to capture the SpaceX Starship launch had six of them destroyed by chunks of concrete thrown from the launch pad. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2023-04-28 21:51
A court has ruled that an artist accused of copying a photographer's work did not commit plagiarism.
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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 »
2022-10-26 18:35
A Slovak photographer is appealing for help to get back on his feet after a devastating apartment fire wiped out his studio, camera equipment, and 25 years’ worth of photography. Slovakia-based photographer Martin Machaj has shared a series of photographs showing the charred remains of gear, workplace, and living space this week after a short […] petapixel.com »
2021-08-11 19:40
An EF-3 tornado ripped through Marshalltown, Iowa, last Thursday, and one of the victims of the disaster was a 92-year-old photographer named Harold Cline. After seeking shelter from the storm, Cline returned to his work to find that his 65-year-old business had been destroyed. petapixel.com »
2018-07-23 21:12
A new photo app called "Firsties" is designed to help parents safely share their kids' photos amid rising child privacy concerns on social media. [Read More]
A new photo sharing app called Flashes is about to be rolled out and it is closely linked with the Twitter alternative Bluesky. [Read More]
Instagram alternative Pixelfed launched a mobile app last week on Android and landed on iOS today. The decentralized, ad-free, and open-source platform, which aims to offer "a fresh take on photo sharing," has surged in popularity and even run afoul of Meta moderation. [Read More]
Instagram will soon roll out a new feature globally that will allow everyone on Instagram to perform a "Recommendations reset," which makes the algorithm forget everything it thinks it knows about you and start from scratch. [Read More]
Today at Meta Connect, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads showed off a technology that is capable of fully recreating influencers as AI figures that can be spoken to as if they were the real person. [Read More]
Earlier this year, Meta -- parent company of Facebook and Instagram -- said it would be adding a notification to images uploaded to its platforms that were made with AI.
After saying it was evaluating adjusting its policy last week, Meta today announced that it is making changes to how it handles what it calls "manipulated media" going forward, adjusting the "Made with AI" label that appears on Instagram to "AI Info" instead. [Read More]