Doug Franklin observed: "Read liberally, if you ever visit Zoo Atlanta, that clause gives them the right to use any photo (for example) of you they can find for any purpose they desire."
The way I read it is "visitor's image, likeness and/or sound recordings" refers only to incidental images or recordings of you that are made by their own employees or contractors, not to your personal images or recordings made during your visit. That seems to be the general PDML opinion as well. So they can't trawl the internet and seize ownership of any Zoo Atlanta image they find. "The nasty bit there is it doesn't limit them to using only "image(s), likeness(es) and/or sound recording(s)" taken from or on their property." The 'get out of jail free' phrase from their agreement seems to be " for the purpose", and I believe that "the purpose" refers to your "visit(s) to Zoo Atlanta". Therefore any purpose not being fulfilled in a visit to Zoo Atlanta would be excluded from the agreement. You can sleep at night assured that the zoo's advertising agency is not stalking you to get perpetually model-released and royalty free images to plaster up wherever they choose, no further consent needed. Regards, Anthony Farr > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Doug Franklin > Sent: Thursday, 19 June 2008 10:30 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: WTF: Zoo license agreement? > > Cory Waters wrote: > > > *Photography & Videography* > > Visitor agrees not to commercially use any photography or reproduction > > in any form taken during any visits to Zoo Atlanta, and visitor grants > > permission to the Zoo Atlanta and its agent to utilize Visitor's image, > > likeness and/or sound recordings for the purpose whatsoever in perpetuity. > > > > Holy crap... I can understand the first part but sheesh that second > > half is a doozie. > > Those are pretty common in the US. It's primarily to avoid them having > to get your release if you're in video they want to use for an > advertisement, for example. The nasty bit there is it doesn't limit > them to using only "image(s), likeness(es) and/or sound recording(s)" > taken from or on their property. Read liberally, if you ever visit Zoo > Atlanta, that clause gives them the right to use any photo (for example) > of you they can find for any purpose they desire. > > But, look at any ticket for a professional sporting event in Atlanta, > and lots of other events, too, and you'll find similar wording. > > -- > Thanks, > DougF (KG4LMZ) > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
