The New York Times Monday May 11, 2026
Five major publishers — Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier and Cengage — and the best-selling novelist Scott Turow have filed a class-action copyright infringement lawsuit against Meta and its founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, claiming that Meta illegally used millions of copyrighted works to train its AI language system Llama. The suit also claims that “Zuckerberg himself personally authorized and actively encouraged the infringement,” notes The New York Times. The case follows another recent lawsuit involving AI company Anthropic and a group of U.S. authors, adds PetaPixel. Read the full Story >>
cpw Monday May 11, 2026
Formerly known as the Center of Photography at Woodstock, the CPW, now located in Kingston, New York, has been moving forward with prestigious exhibitions of work by the likes of Ocean Vuong and Nona Faustine and will present its annual Vision Awards on May 16. The CPW is also set to launch the Upstate Photography Biennial on May 30. The biennial—the museum’s first—will survey a range of imagery, from cyanotypes to iPhone photography, “with a wide-angle view of what photography can be,” notes Chronogram. Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Monday May 11, 2026
The US Copyright Office has proposed a substantial increase to the cost to register photos, citing rising costs and inflation. Registration of both published and unpublished photos is set to increase to $85, up from $55 — a 55% increase, notes PetaPixel. The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) argues this is too much of a burden to place on photographers. “The NPPA urges the Copyright Office to delay any increase in registration costs for group registration of photographs until modernization of the registration process is complete,” the organization said in a submitted statement. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Monday May 11, 2026
In literature, some cities become living, breathing characters. Such is certainly the case of Los Angeles in the crime novels of Raymond Chandler, in which shadowed "mean streets," as Chandler once
put it, echo the dark souls who inhabit an underworld bereft of California's golden promises. It is impossible to see the images in Emmy-winning director and photographer Daniel Sackheim's new book
"The City … Read the full Story >>
