UK-based photo agency Xposure Photos alleges that the reality TV star removed the agency’s watermark and posted the photo on Instagram, sharing it with her nearly 70M followers, without permission.
By Eriq Gardner. The Hollywood Reporter.
Illustrator Amy Sullivan’s registered artwork was infringed upon by global health products supplier Flora, in multiple advertising campaigns.
By Steven Elbow. The Capital Times.
www.wiscnews.com/baraboonewsrepublic/news/local/article_0780f5a3-f287-5d64-a368-751c536175cb.html
Marie Claire and Estée Lauder-owned Bumble and bumble shared Pennsylvania photographer James Jollay’s image with nearly 1 million Instagram followers, without credit or compensation.
By James Jollay. PetaPixel.
https://petapixel.com/2017/04/21/copyright-censorship-instagram-marie-claire-stole-photo
Action photographer Jeffrey R. Werner alleges that Barcroft Media, Ltd. and Valnet Inc. used his registered photos without permission.
By Wadi Reformado. Northern California Record.
Thoroughbred racing lensmen contend with an increasingly competitive and expensive bid to protect their copyrighted photographs.
By Sarah Radford. Horse & Hound.
www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/equestrian-photograph-copyright-theft-617064
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals finds that website moderators may have the ability to screen for copyrighted content, thus limiting site operators’ DMCA safe-harbor immunity from copyright claims.
By Eriq Gardner. The Hollywood Reporter.
San Francisco-based freelancer Paige K. Parsons claims that singer Erykah Badu and her representatives, including Universal Music Group, used Parsons’s copyrighted photo without permission.
By Rebecca Cooper. Washington Business Journal.
www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2017/03/28/photographer-sues-erykah-badu-in-d-c-court-over.html
Vanessa Boy claims that the apparel retailer used her Instagram photo on social media and advertisements, without credit or permission.
The Fashion Law.
www.thefashionlaw.com/home/forever-21-hit-with-copyright-infringement-suit-over-instagram-photo
Mavrix Photographs alleges that news site Black Celebrity Kids used several of Mavrix’s registered photos of Beyonce, without permission.
By Jenie Mallari-Torres. Northern California Record.
A French court ruled that American artist Jeff Koons misappropriated the late French photographer Jean-François Bauret’s iconic photograph, in Koons’s statue creation, and the exhibiting Pompidou Center was at fault for using an image of the statue in its marketing materials.
By Amah-Rose Abrams. Artnet News.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/jeff-koons-pompidou-lose-copyright-infringement-case-887324
