PetaPixel Monday December 9, 2024
Canon and Amazon have won a default judgment against 29 seller accounts that were engaged in what the two companies characterize as the illegal sale of counterfeit “Canon” batteries and chargers. The lawsuit, filed by the Canon and Amazon jointly, alleged that 29 accounts were using Amazon’s storefront to sell counterfeit Canon batteries. “These types of batteries should not be confused with third-party batteries that are designed to work in Canon cameras but are not branded Canon,” notes PetaPixel. These sellers were positioning their third-party options as first-party, which infringed on Canon’s copyrights, noted Canon and Amazon in their suit. Read the full Story >>
Barron’s Monday December 9, 2024
AFP photographer Christina Assi, who was badly wounded by Israeli shelling in Lebanon, has been named as one of the 100 most influential women of 2024 by the BBC. Assi, 29, had her right leg amputated after being hit by an Israeli tank shell while covering cross border clashes in southern Lebanon in October 2023. Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah was killed in the attack and five other journalists, including AFP's video journalist Dylan Collins, were also wounded, notes Barron’s.
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David Schonauer Monday December 9, 2024
Kenneth Montague, a first-generation Jamaican Canadian, was 10 years old when he first saw James Van Der Zee's 1932 photograph of a young couple dressed in raccoon fur coats and posing with their
Cadillac V-16 Roadster in Harlem. Viewing the photo at the Detroit Institute of the Arts in the 1970s, Montague was astonished by the gleaming image of Black aspiration. A decade later, … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Monday December 9, 2024
Will TikTok disappear in 2025? The popular video platform, reported The New York Times on Friday, "is one step closer" to being removed from the U.S. after a panel of federal judges unanimously
upheld a law passed in April that requires ByteDance, the China-based company that own's TikTok, to sell the app or face a ban. The court ruling could be a death blow … Read the full Story >>
