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David Schonauer Wednesday April 8, 2026
On March 2, the US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from a computer scientist hoping to secure copyright protection for an AI-generated image. The decision by SCOTUS upheld lower court rulings
that maintained that human authorship is an essential requirement for copyright as per the 1976 US Copyright Act. Afterward, as the Copyright Lately website noted recently, people looking for clarity
on … Read the full Story >>
DP Review Tuesday April 7, 2026
Companies typically look for high-quality photographs for marketing materials, but Icelandair is taking a different approach. The airline recently launched a campaign seeking "the worst photographer" to prove that even bad photographers can capture beautiful images of Iceland, notes DP Review. Winners will receive a 10-day trip to Iceland, with travel expenses paid and the chance for their images to be used in a global ad campaign. Selected participants could also win $50,000. Read the full Story >>
Rochester Institute of Technology Tuesday April 7, 2026
“Most people can use a camera and get a photo that is good enough, but good enough isn't what we're after scientifically.” So say Katrina Willoughby, a 2004 graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology and one of the RIT alums who served as flight operations imagery instructors for the Artemis II astronauts now headed home after circling the moon on Monday. Willoughby and Paul Reichert, class of 2001, were graduates of RIT’s imaging and photographic technology program, now known as photographic sciences. Read the full Story >>
The New Yorker Tuesday April 7, 2026
Norwegian photographer Torbjørn Rødland’s work is a “flummoxing, beguiling mélange of romanticism, humor, spirituality, sex, horror, glamour, and poignancy,” notes The New Yorker, which spotlights the exhibition “Torbjørn Rødland” Bones in the Canal and Other Photographs,” on view at New York City’s David Kordansky Gallery through April 25. “Non-artists, they hate when they don’t understand something. But for artists, if we see something and we don’t fully understand it, it’s a gift,” Rødland says. Read the full Story >>
