It looks like LeBron James decided to fight back against a photographer that filed a lawsuit against him and he did so with a countersuit for no less than $USD 1 million. Steve Mitchell, the photographer in question, originally sued LeBron James for copyright infringement because the basketball legend posted a picture that Mitchell had […]
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A recent lawsuit victory for a photographer against online publication Buzzfeed could make it easier for photographers to bring forward copyright infringement claims in the future. Gregory Mango’s photo was initially licensed by a person named Gary Parker who was himself at the center of a discrimination lawsuit against New York City at the time, […]
Photographer Deborah Feingold has won her lawsuit against a company that used her photos of celebrities Keanu Reeves and Madonna to sell merchandise. In what is being called a ruling the shows the limits of the “safe harbor portion” of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act because RageOn Inc. did not remove the offending user-generated merchandise […]
Photographers have to be vigilant about copyright because there are so many people out there that take advantage of others’ work it is heartbreaking and expensive. And you might not think of Walmart’s Photolab as a potential vector for this to happen but there are reports on PetaPixel and Reddit that a recent policy change […]
If there’s an issue that confuses the heck out of people, it is the concept of copyright and the protections it offers creators. Of course, it’s not hard to see why people are confused – and it’s only becoming worse. After all, in the past, when we didn’t have Instagram, Twitter, and all of the […]
Another celebrity is getting sued for posting a picture to Instagram, and this time it is none other than fashion icon and possible future owner of the New York Mets, Jennifer Lopez. As you can probably guess, this story goes the way of so many before it. Jlo or someone on her team wasn’t paying […]