[cc-community] CC Dragged Into Lawsuit

Rob Myers rob at robmyers.org
Sat Sep 22 19:48:21 EDT 2007


Joichi Ito wrote:

> And my point is, that for the subject to have free use of a  
> photograph of themselves, they would need the photographer to license  
> it under a CC-BY or equivalent.

And this, surely, is part of why CC is needed. The 19th century debate 
about who should own a photographic image, depicter or depicted, can in 
the 21st century be resolved fairly in favor of both.

- Rob.


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