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33 US states sue Meta over “deliberately addicting children to social media”
Oct 25, 2023
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
A bipartisan coalition of 33 state attorneys general has sued Meta, accusing the company of intentionally designing harmful features on Instagram and Facebook. According to the lawsuit, the company knowingly addicted many young users to overuse these apps.
Miles Davis photographer will get his day in court over copyright dispute
Oct 17, 2023
Alex Baker
A photographer who issued a lawsuit against celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D for using his photo of jazz legend Miles Davis as a tattoo…
Adobe ordered to pay more than $33 million for patent infringement
Sep 30, 2023
John Aldred
Adobe has been ordered by a court in Delaware to pay almost $33.8 million to a company called ViaTech Technologies over patent infringement. ViaTech brought…
George R.R. Martin joins fellow authors in copyright lawsuit against OpenAI
Sep 20, 2023
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
The Authors Guild and famous writers like George R.R. Martin, Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham, and Jodi Picoult are suing OpenAI. They claim that the company used their books without asking to train their AI models – without permission, apparently. The lawsuit was just filed in New York, and it will be a class action suit, which would let other writers join in.
Burger King to face lawsuit for misrepresenting whopper size in ad photos
Aug 31, 2023
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
We’ve always joked about how burgers look way better in ad photos than in reality. But Burger King got sued over it. A U.S. judge…
No copyright protection for AI generated images, says judge
Aug 21, 2023
Alex Baker
A United States District Court Judge has determined that AI-generated artworks cannot have copyright protection. The ruling came as a response to a lawsuit brought…
Couple sue Air BnB host for $75,000 after finding hidden cameras
Jul 26, 2023
Alex Baker
A Texas couple has filed a lawsuit against a Maryland man for allegedly planting hidden cameras in an Airbnb they rented during their stay in…
UK photographer jailed for raping client
Jul 24, 2023
Alex Baker
London courts have served a photographer with an 11-year jail sentence after he sexually assaulted a former client. Sritharan Sayanthan, aged 42 and hailing from…
Photographer Edward French’s murder ends in hung jury
Jun 16, 2023
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
In July 2017, two people robbed and killed photographer Edward French at the Twin Peaks lookout in San Francisco. Although they allegedly had the murder…
Florence museum wins lawsuit over magazine’s image of David statue
Jun 7, 2023
Alex Baker
A Florence museum has won a legal case against a magazine publisher that used an image of Michelangelo’s David without permission. An Italian court ruled…