Photographer Sues Newsweek for Copyright Infringement

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

Publicist and Videographer Sue PBS and Surrogacy Firm for Copyright Infringement

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

NY Photographer Sues Foundation for Copyright Infringement

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