PetaPixel Friday August 2, 2024
The Leica SL3 bug that could delete people’s photos has been squashed, reports PetaPixel. Leica has released a firmware fix, which is now available to SL3 owners. Leica SL3 firmware version 1.1.9 fixes what the company termed a sporadic error “that resulted in unnoticed overwriting of existing recordings if the camera was not properly turned off beforehand (e.g., during battery replacement in standby mode or after an unexpected software interruption).”
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Billboard Friday August 2, 2024
Neil Zlozower, a veteran rock photographer who’s shot images of Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen, is suing Warner Records over a Facebook post featuring a picture of Tom Petty — the latest of more than 50 lawsuits he has filed over the past decade, notes Billboard. Zlozower’s lawyers claim the image was posted in 2020 to the official Facebook page for Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, which Warner allegedly controls, without permission. Photographers and their attorneys say such legal actions are their only real recourse against rampant online theft, adds Billboard.
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LensCulture Friday August 2, 2024
Officially, more than one million immigrants from Africa reside in Italy, though a vast number of undocumented migrants also add to this figure, notes Lens Culture. For her project “Nowhere Near,” Alisa Martynova spent time on the coasts of Italy and France, photographing people who have made the perilous crossing, united by the shared experience of migration yet each carrying with them their own story. For Martynova, shining a light on each person she met is as much a visual choice as it is a metaphorical one, adds LC.
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The Times of Israel Friday August 2, 2024
The Associated Press and Reuters have asked the Jerusalem District Court to dismiss a lawsuit seeking $6.8 million in damages from the news organizations for their use of photos taken by controversial photojournalists during the October 7 Hamas attack and atrocities. AP argued that accepting the lawsuit would strike “a fatal blow” to freedom of press and limit the freedom of media outlets operating in Israel in the future, notes The Times of Israel. In February, survivors of the Hama attacks filed a lawsuit against AP, accusing the news agency of “materially supporting terrorism” by paying alleged Hamas-associated photojournalists for images, adds PetaPixel.
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