The Federal Aviation Administration is allowing commercial drone flight without airspace clearance. The leeway is only granted to the 50 plus companies already granted exemption from the rule banning commercial drones. (ComputerWorld, March 24, 2015, by Martyn Williams, IDG News Service)
Amazon is protesting government regulation contending that approval given to them to test deliveries by drones came too late as it has developed new models making the approval useless. (Bloomberg Business, March 24, 2015, by Spencer Soper)
The first federal court case surfaced focusing on the First Amendment right to gather information using drones in the case of a Hartford, Connecticut photographer who was ordered to stop flying a drone over an accident scene. The police complained he had compromised the crime scene and recommended he be disciplined with the result that his television company suspended him from work for a week. Since the Supreme Court and the Second Circuit had not upheld a constitutional right to gather information by video recording and especially by a hovering craft, the court found for the police. (The Volokh Conspiracy in The Washington Post, March 30. 2015, by Eugene Volokh)