Photographer Wins Copyright Suit Under Digital Millennium Copyright Act

According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle-based photographer Lloyd Shugart won a $1.32 million judgment against shoe manufacturer Propét USA. According to the story, this appears to be the first time that someone has won such a ruling under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, generally used by copyright holders to force web sites to remove content posted without their consent.

Photographer Faces Possible Return to Jail

The New York Times has a story about a photographer who had served 13 years for manslaughter when he was a teenager. Eventually out on parole, he became a news photographer for the New York Post. But because of some minor brushes with police in his photojournalistic work, Jason Nicholas might end up serving the six-year remainder of his parolled sentence.