Re: [CinePaint] photo rights

Robin Rowe <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.cinepaint.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
David,

> My understanding is that a legitimate "street scene" does not require
> model releases because they are not models. 

I'm not a lawyer either, but I'm a journalist and a former NBC-TV 
technical director. The legal standard for news photography (absence of 
malice) is different from commercial photography (personal privacy).

This link may help explain...

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#When_are_publicity_rights_relevant.3F

When are publicity rights relevant?

Publicity rights allow individuals to control how their voice, image or 
likeness is used for commercial purposes in public. These rights are 
relevant to any work that contains human subjects, such as photographs, 
audio or video interviews, plays, songs, and other spoken or visual 
content. When transmitting this sort of content, including the voices or 
images of anyone other than yourself, you may need to get permission 
from those individuals if you are using their voice or images for 
commercial purposes. This is a distinct and separate obligation from 
obtaining the copyright license, which only gives you a license from the 
author (or photographer) but not from the subjects. A Creative Commons 
license does not waive or otherwise affect the publicity rights of 
subjects.

Robin
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Robin Rowe
CinePaint Project Leader
Beverly Hills, California
www.CinePaint.org

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