[cc-community] CC Dragged Into Lawsuit

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Thu Sep 20 20:24:33 EDT 2007


On Thursday 20 September 2007 07:51 pm, Nic Suzor wrote:
> On 9/21/07, Fred Benenson <fred.benenson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In some way, I think this is probably Flickr's and Virgin's
> > responsibility, rather than CC's or the photographer's.
>
> I'm not sure about this - if you give me a photo and say that I can
> use it commercially, how much am I expected to make sure that you've
> cleared all the necessary rights?

Personally, I would not assume that the rights are cleared. A person could 
easily be taking it that they are giving you the rights necessary as they 
relate to copyright. End of story. You are on your own the clear the other 
rights depending on what uses you wish to make. This makes some sense.

I mean, say you take a street scene with lots of people in it. You put it 
under a BY license. Do you need to get clearances from hundreds of people? O 
nthe off chance someone wants to crop out a face and use the image as an 
endorsement?

I am very wary of putting out any of my photo's with people in them, including 
myself, as a result of all of these other things that go along with 
copyrights with respect to photos.

I would like to see better, honest, tutorials for photographers on the 
interaction of all of this as it relates to Free works at some point.

all the best,

drew


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