Your Picture Might Appear Anywhere
from the what-can-you-do? dept
An interesting Salon.com article talking about the legal issues involved with your picture. If you appear at a public place, someone takes your picture, and then puts it up online in order to sell it, is that legal? That seems to be the question, and no one is quite sure what the answer is. There's a fuzzy line between public and private, and what people are allowed to do with images in each case.
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Reminds me of a lawsuit..
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And... actually, I think I tracked down the original article he meant to link to.
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Phillip.
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Naked
I'll pose naked and drunk for 5 million dollars in a heartbeat...
But my roomates already know that.
msykes
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Implicit copyright on your likeness
People have to grant permission to use photographs. If you don't have a signed Release, you can't use it. The web has not changed this part of the law.
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