Music photographer Dennis Morris sues appropriation artist Richard Prince for using Morris's copyrighted photos of Sex Pistols bass guitarist Sid Vicious, without Morris's consent. By Vida Weisblum. Observer. http://observer.com/2016/06/prince-gagosian-sued-for-appropriating-famed-sid-vicious-photo...
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Dutch celebrity photographer Dana Lixenberg sues the music-streaming giant for using her photo of the late "Notorious B.I.G." without permission on the artist's Spotify page. By Eriq Gardner. The Hollywood Reporter. www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/spotify-sued-notorious-big-image-899527...
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New York freelance celebrity photographer Steve Sands, represented by , sues Dan Abrams's celebrity news site The Mary Sue for infringing on his exclusive photos of the Netflix original TV series "Jessica Jones." By Keith J. Kelly. New York Post. http://nypost.com/2016/05/31/abcs-dan-abrams-being-sued-by-photographer-for-150k...
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Pennsylvania photographer Michael A. Keller sues the textbook publishing giant, for allegedly breaching their licensing agreement and infringing on Keller's copyrighted photographs. By Jamie Keller. Pennsylvania Record. http://pennrecord.com/stories/510735492-licensing-restrictions-and-usage-rights-at-the-heart-of-houghton-mifflin-copyright-case...
Continue reading Pennsylvania photographer Michael A. Keller sues the textbook publishing giant for allegedly breaching a licensing agreement, and therefore infringing on Keller's copyrighted photographs. By Gene Johnson. Penn Record. http://pennrecord.com/stories/510724522-textbook-company-accused-of-copyright-infringement...
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Ottawa photographer Paul Couvrette wins copyright suit against the parent company of Boom 99.7 radio station, Corus Entertainment, for infringing on Couvrette's watermarked real estate photograph. By Haley Ritchie. Metro News. http://m.metronews.ca/#/article/news/ottawa/2016/05/11/ottawa-photographer-copyright-case-with-radio-station.html...
Continue reading New York photographer Brian R. Wolff claims that Newsweek infringed on exclusive photos Wolff took at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, by featuring Wolff's photos on the publication's website in July 2014, without permission, and refusing to take them down. By Annie Hunt. The Pennsylvania Record. http://pennrecord.com/stories/510712483-photographer-sues-newsweek-for-alleged-copyright-infringement...
Continue reading Publicist Wendy Wheaton and cameraman Tommy Phipps Sr. sue PBS and World of Surrogacy LLC for $2.55M in damages, after the surrogacy firm's owner Crystal Travis allegedly used Wheaton and Phipps's copyrighted surrogacy footage and photographs, as if they belonged to her, in a PBS documentary entitled "To the Contrary." By Dru Sefton. Current. http://current.org/2016/04/lawsuit-alleges-copyright-infringement-in-to-the-contrary-segment...
Continue reading Photographer Bobby Miller claims that the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation is not exhibiting self-portraits of the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, but instead infringing on exclusive photos that Miller took of Mapplethorpe in his Manhattan loft, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The Associated Press. The New York Daily News. www.nydailynews.com/new-york/mapplethorpe-foundation-sued-65m-drag-photography-article-1.2593275...
Continue reading New York photographer Eric Johnson sues company Rocksmith Group, LLC for exploiting his photo of the late singer Aaliyah on T-shirts and other apparel, depriving Johnson of referral revenue and clothing profits, especially from the photographer's own Aaliyah T-shirt line. By Tim Kenneally. The Wrap. www.thewrap.com/aaliyah-clothing-line-fuels-copyright-infringement-lawsuit...
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