----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Farr" Subject: RE: WTF: Zoo license agreement?
> 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. I think if you were in any country that abided by the sprit of agreements you would be correct. American companies (and governments) have an infuriating habit of sticking it to people with the letter of an agreement when it is advantageous for them to do so. The letter of the agreement doesn't limit use to images taken within the zoo compound, even though a civilized person would think that it does. I bet that if Ken Waller ever visited the Atlanta Zoo, and the zoo decided to use one of his Denali pictures in an ad campaign, it would cost him a heck of a lot of money to overturn the "agreement" he made when he bought his admission pass. William Robb >> > *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. -- 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.
