[cc-licenses] Distribution of picture on the internet in US-law?

Jordan S Hatcher jordan at opencontentlawyer.com
Fri Oct 5 07:12:38 EDT 2007


On 5 Oct 2007, at 12:06, Karl Ebener wrote:

> Hi Dana,
>
> as far as I understand it after having read the wikipedia-article, the
> answer to my question would be:
> 1. Commercial use of the picture would violate to right to publicity
> which is part or parallel to the right to privacy.
> 2. Non-commercial use might violate the right to privacy, but the  
> answer
> is not definite.
>
> Would this summary be right?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>  Karl
>


State law in the US varies pretty widely on this issue, and of course  
the overlap with privacy rights vary from state-to-state as well. I'd  
be cautious as to trying to ascertain a general consensus of the law.

~Jordan

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