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Posted on 02/02/05 4:37:49 PM |
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trinityofone
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A cautionary tale!!
I found this posted on another forum...not good if you're the photographer! http://www.insidebayarea.com/trivalleyherald/localnews/ci_2547765 _________________ A happy-go-lucky chap, always dressed in black |
Posted on 02/02/05 4:47:42 PM |
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tabitha 1
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Why can that never happen to me? I will pose with a cuppa anyday 
On a serious note, I really dont understand how the guy is entitled to anymore money than he recieved when he did the photoshoot for Nestle?? They were not taking his picture for the fun of it... or am I wrong?? _________________ "She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech." George Barnard Shaw. |
Posted on 02/02/05 4:59:54 PM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: A cautionary tale!!
That's why royalty-free photo libraries are so careful to secure model release forms from all the people they use. Corel used to do several series of bargain-basement CDs, with 100 image on each CD (they were so cheap, I've got 600 of them!). All sorts of themes: polar bears, Mexico, pumpkins, wolves, whatever they could get 100 pics of to stick on a disc. They weren't too fussy about where the images came from. It all went wrong when a recently bereaved couple spotted a photograph in a magazine. The photo was of their son conducting an orchestra. All very well - except for a couple of problems. First, their son had recently died. Second, the designer had flipped the image to make it face the other way, which is common practice in magazines. The big issue was, the parents claimed, that showing their son conducting an orchestra with the wrong hand was an insult to his memory. They won their case, and the entire 800 CD library (I never got around to buying volume 4) was canned. Be careful whose photos you use! |
Posted on 02/02/05 5:41:47 PM |
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trinityofone
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One thing I've never grasped is crowd shots, whether it's a small number in a station foyer for instance or a larger one. iStock's policy is "if you can discern the face, it needs a model release." Surely, that's not practical and you see crowds in all sorts of articles! _________________ A happy-go-lucky chap, always dressed in black |
Posted on 02/02/05 5:49:14 PM |
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Steve Caplin
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It is tricky, and it explains why no photo libraries include shots of crowds with discernible faces - they're always blurred. I use crowd shots occasionally, but I'm always a little worried that someone might complain. As I understand it, you're allowed to use any photo taken outdoors in a public place. But I don't think that gives photo libraries the right to sell images of members of the public! So next time you go on holiday, photograph loads of crowds and hope they don't find what you've done with their images later. |
Posted on 02/02/05 5:53:48 PM |
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trinityofone
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That's a good plan, just claim good ol' British ignorance 
The new look site is great BTW! Nicely done Steve. _________________ A happy-go-lucky chap, always dressed in black |
Posted on 03/02/05 02:00:08 AM |
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eventer
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Gosh, where do you learn all this. I have been cheerfully using all sorts of photos for webby stuff. |
Posted on 09/02/05 08:45:45 AM |
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trinityofone
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Carrying on the subject, I found a link to this site, it has a lot of information regarding image usage, etc. _________________ A happy-go-lucky chap, always dressed in black |
Posted on 09/02/05 10:57:03 PM |
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eventer
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Sorry, I didn't understand the last post. Did you mean there was information about image usage in the trivalleyherald page? |