Photographer Sues Church Over Copyright Infringement

A photographer is taking legal action against a small church in South Carolina for allegedly using his photograph without consent. Erin Paul Donovan, a photographer from New Hampshire, has initiated a federal lawsuit against Wightman United Methodist Church in Prosperity, South Carolina. Donovan claims that his photograph, depicting New Hampshire’s White Mountains, was used on the church's website without his permission, specifically as a thumbnail for a sermon video dated June 2021.