The Hollywood Reporter Tuesday August 26, 2025
Yesterday we noted that Universal Pictures and Disney have sued Midjourney over AI plagiarism. The Hollywood Reporter notes that Universal has made another move by adding a legal warning to its films at the end of the credits: Movies such as How To Train Your Dragon, Jurassic World Rebirth, and The Bad Guys 2, all released this summer, have had “may not be used to train AI” notices attached to the end of them, notes PetaPixel. “By Universal’s thinking, the worldwide insertion of the language adds another layer of protection against the theft of its movies for data mining and AI training purposes, according to a person familiar with the situation,” notes THR.
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The New York Times Tuesday August 26, 2025
Fifteen years after photographer Joao Silva lost his legs to a land mine while covering the war in Afghanistan, he returned to the place where it happened. “I was here in search of closure, but not the emotional kind,” he writes at The New York Times. “I had unfinished journalistic business. My time in Afghanistan had ended abruptly. I had missed the U.S. withdrawal and the Taliban takeover, and I was sad that I had not seen the story through. But now I would pick it back up in a new chapter.”
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Surfer Tuesday August 26, 2025
Launched n 2006 after the death of Surfing magazine photo editor Larry “Flame” Moore, the Follow The Light Surf Photography Grant shines a spotlight on emerging surf photographers between the age 18-26 whose work captures the beauty, culture, and spirit of surfing. The submission window is officially open until September 15, notes Surfer magazine; artists can submit a portfolio of 20 to 25 images for a grant prize of $5,000, mentorship, and “career-changing exposure.” Finalists will be awarded at the Coast Film & Music Festival in Laguna Beach.
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David Schonauer Tuesday August 26, 2025
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Adrienne Salinger would approach girls in line for the toilet at shopping malls across America and do something that one might not today--she would ask if she
could photograph them in their bedrooms. "Think of that! Now, can you imagine?" Salinger commented recently. Her images were collected in the 1995 book "Teenagers in Their Bedrooms," which achieved … Read the full Story >>
