Newsweek LLC and photographer Elliot McGucken have settled a copyright dispute over the magazine's use of an Instagram post featuring one of McGucken's images without his permission, according to ...

Instagram does not provide users of its embedding API a copyright license to display embedded images on other websites, the company said in a Thursday email to Ars Technica.

Instagram isn’t liable for infringement when posts containing copyrighted works are embedded into third-party sites, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled.

Back in those long-lost days -- specifically, in 2007 -- the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that accused copyright infringers are not liable for displaying digital images unless those ...

A surprise lawsuit ruling means that Instagram copyright matters just got a whole lot more complicated. The case was between Newsweek and a photographer whose work was displayed on Instagram, and ...

In May 2021, two photojournalists filed a class action lawsuit against Instagram, alleging that the social media giant allowed and encouraged third ...

Instagram users are being targeted by a new phishing scam that accuses them of copyright infringement in order to obtain their login details. The attack begins with an email that claims a user’s ...

Social media companies tend to take up copyright issues only when a) mitigating the pain in the ass of takedown notices and b) ensuring users keep reposting memes. Instagram has erred cautiously ...

WASHINGTON — Instagram this week suspended a popular Catholic account for apparent copyright violations. Catholic Connect, an account sharing Catholic-themed content with a traditional bent ...

Software company Digimarc will now let copyright owners add more information to their work, which the company said will improve how AI models treat copyright in training data.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in California has ruled that the poses in Woodland’s Instagram posts are not protected under copyright law, and therefore Lil Nas X, born Montero ...