DescriptioThanks to generous support from MPB, these $5,000 grants will support photography projects — either new or in-progress — from visual journalists working in a documentary capacity. Five grants are available, at least one of which will be earmarked for a nonbinary or transgender photographer.

Funding may be used to cover the hard costs of reporting, photographers’ creative fees, and any other expenses that support the production of new work. This grant is not meant to support the production of books, exhibitions, workshops, or other secondary materials.

Applicants are encouraged to submit a story, rather than singles, as part of the grant application. The images need not be related to the project proposal (but please specify in your application if the images are unrelated to your proposal). n goes here

Closing May 15th 2024

The Museum of Australian Photography and the MAPh Foundation are pleased to announce that entries are now open for the 2024 Bowness Photography Prize.

MAPh invites artists at all stages of their career to submit still photo-based media including analogue and digital photography created over the last year for consideration. The winning work will be awarded $30,000 and will be acquired into MAPh’s nationally significant collection of Australian photographs. One artist will also be selected for the $10,000 Wai Tang Commissioning Award, which is graciously supported by Kee Wong and Stacey Wang and which will coincide with the 2025 Bowness Photography Prize exhibition season. MAPh is thrilled to welcome Camera House as the new sponsor of the People’s Choice Award to be voted by the public, and we are very grateful for their support.

Over the last 19 years, the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize has emerged as an important annual survey of contemporary photographic practice in Australia and one of the most prestigious prizes in the country. The MAPh Foundation recognises the importance of supporting practising artists, and the positive impact the prize money for both the winner and People’s Choice Award will have on the recipients and their careers.

Entries close 13th June 2024

European Parliament approved the Artificial Intelligence Act that ensures safety and compliance with fundamental rights, while boosting innovation.

The regulation, agreed in negotiations with member states in December 2023, was endorsed by MEPs with 523 votes in favour, 46 against and 49 abstentions.

It aims to protect fundamental rights, democracy, the rule of law and environmental sustainability from high-risk AI, while boosting innovation and establishing Europe as a leader in the field. The regulation establishes obligations for AI based on its potential risks and level of impact.

Stills is a rights-managed photo licensing platform offering authentic imagery from exceptional photographers to the world’s top brands and artists.

They are currently accepting applications for licensing representation.

Now in its sixth year The Mono Awards, presented by Synology, celebrates everything you love about black & white photography.

The Mono Awards are open to photographers from around the world and offers $18,000 in prize money.

Entries close 26 May 2024.

The Perth Centre for Photography is pleased to announce that the 2024 Contemporary Landscapes in Photography (CLIP) Award is now open and all artists are invited to enter.

The CLIP Award is PCP’s biennial award for contemporary urban, natural, and conceptual landscape photography. CLIP celebrates new international photography that exemplifies excellence and intrigue.

Entries close 1st May 2024, 11:59pm

A new, free tool designed by researchers at the University of Chicago to help artists “poison” artificial intelligence models trained on their images without their consent has proved immensely popular. Less than a week after it went live, the software was downloaded more than 250,000 times.

The industry and science minister, Ed Husic, has left the door open for creatives or publishers to receive payments if their work is used to “train” artificial intelligence platforms.

The government is considering the copyright implications of generative AI services such as ChatGPT and Dall-E, as content producers around the world, including movie studios and record labels, call for licensing agreements for how their work is used.

The world’s biggest tech firms have called on the government to look to existing laws before coming up with new regulation to govern the use and development of artificial intelligence.

Responding to the government’s call for ideas on how Australia can develop safe and responsible AI practices, the peak body representing the likes of Apple, Google, Twitter, Meta, TikTok and Yahoo advised the government to base its AI policy “on existing regulation, rather than introducing new legislation aimed at regulating AI as a technology”.

In the past year, dozens of communities dedicated to AI art have accelerated across the Internet, from Reddit to Twitter to Discord, with thousands of AI artists practicing their skills to create precise prompts and sharing the results with others. The amount of content created during this time is hard to measure, but whatever it is, it’s incredibly big. We’ve kept track of some AI image statistics and facts and tried to estimate (at least roughly) how much content has been created since text-to-image algorithms took off last year. Read on to learn more about how we arrived at this number and how some of the most prominent algorithms contribute to it.

‘In the event that an AI produces material infringing copyright, who would be responsible?’

Artificial intelligence is forcing a new approach to intellectual property law. Politicians in some jurisdictions are helping to smooth some of the legal challenges, but courts are likely to have the final say.

Nikon Peru has launched a clever marketing campaign encouraging people to not "give up on the real world" and fight back against Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated creations.

Created with advertising agency Circus Grey Peru, the company says the campaign serves as a reminder that "our world is full of natural beauty that is often much more incredible than any AI generated photo."

The print and outdoor campaign shows photos of real natural places that are stranger than fiction, captured by photographers using Nikon cameras.

The Australian Government want your views on how they can mitigate any potential risks of AI and support safe and responsible AI practices.

AI is already improving many aspects of our lives. But the speed of innovation in AI could pose new risks, which creates uncertainty and gives rise to public concerns.

Responses close 26 July 2023

Can machines be classed as inventors on patents? And what happens when copyrighted works are used for machine learning?

ChatGPT and other generative AI technologies have taken off in recent months, with individuals and businesses using the technologies to create content.

Simon Newcomb, Intellectual Property and Technology Partner, talks to Sean Aylmer from Fear and Greed about the wide range of legal issues businesses need to consider when it comes to ChatGPT and other AI.

The US Supreme Court has ruled Andy Warhol's painting of the singer Prince infringed on the copyright of the original photographer's work.

In 2016, Vanity Fair published a Prince tribute which featured Warhol's image but no credit or payment was given to the photographer, Lynn Goldsmith.

The crux of the case was whether or not Warhol's work falls under fair-use laws.

The court ruled his work did not fall under these laws by seven votes to two.

On 23 February 2023, the Attorney-General, the Hon Mark Dreyfus KC MP, chaired an inaugural Ministerial Roundtable on Copyright. The Roundtable brought together 30 organisations from a wide range of sectors with an interest in copyright, including publishing, broadcasting, screen, education, research, music, gaming, technology and cultural collections.

The purpose of this Roundtable was to provide an opportunity for dialogue between key stakeholders on copyright priorities and emerging issues, and to increase effective collaboration between government and key stakeholders in the development of copyright law reform. Further collaborative discussions will follow throughout 2023 with the aim of developing practical and achievable copyright reform proposals for Government consideration, which could potentially be taken forward with broad stakeholder support.