High noon for Getty Images as a photographer bites back

Image by Carol M Highsmith When LCS, a company acting for stock photographic image agency Alamy , sent photographer Carol M Highsmith a $120...

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Video-sharing website Vimeo LLC cannot be held liable for copyright infringement for unknowingly hosting older music uploaded by its users, ...

Does Axl's photograph claim carry any weight?

Guns N Roses and now AC/DC frontman Axl Rose has filed six DCMA take down notices in what is seen as an attempt remove an unflattering photo...

Universal and Capitol fly high with copyright win

Universal Music and Capitol Records have obtained summary judgment against IFP and parent company Global Eagle, an in flight music licensing...

q bljeghbe'chugh vaj blHej (our first headline in Klingon)

The lawsuit between Paramount Pictures, CBS studios and the producers of the crowdfunded Star Trek spin-off "Prelude to Axanar" ju...

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It been eight years since the publisher John Wiley & Sons sued Supap Kirtsaeng for re-selling Asian market textbooks in the USA - and no...

Self-Portraits of Robert Mapplethorpe? Portraits of Robert Mapplethorpe?

On April 6, 2016, artist and photographer James Miller, professionally known as Bobby Miller, filed a copyright infringement suit against Th...

Plus Ça Change… Prince, Rastafarians, and Fair Use

You may remember that Richard Prince, the Gagosian Gallery, and Larry Gagosian have been sued by photographer Donald Graham for copyright...