On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 13:25:22 +0100, Bob Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
One problem is that this is an international list and laws are different
in each country. For the sake of this discussion, we need to limit it
to the country in which the photograph was taken, I'm assuming the USA.
In your case, Godfrey, the applicable law would be that of the Isle of
Man. I assume they follow UK law?
No. They have their own legislature and laws. But they do often copy
English laws to save time and trouble and the bother of understanding what
the laws mean.
John
Bob
On Apr 3, 2006, at 7:18 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
Again, I am no lawyer and have little to gain from pursuing a specific
opinion on this matter. I'm interested in that I'm showing and selling
photographs that contain people, as do many other street photographers
who publish their work. I know that the vast majority of that work is
sold without releases for the people in the pictures.
So here's a situation that comes straight home to me. My current
exhibit (on display until April 16, btw, if you are local and want to
go see it...) has several pictures of people in it. The pictures are,
in essence, about them and the city I photographed, Ramsey on the Isle
of Man. I have no model releases for any of these photographs. They
were intended to be used for display and sale, editorially and as art
but not in advertising.
The Isle of Man Examiner, when informed of my show, did a feature
article on my show (see http://www.gdgphoto.com/ramsey/yank/) and chose
a couple of the photos to present in the article. They never asked me
for releases, never went to the people in the photo for releases to the
best of my knowledge. I will assume that they know what they're doing
with regard to liability and releases.
How does this differ from me taking the same photograph(s) and making
them into T-shirts for sale to those that like them?
Godfrey
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