Development of Creative Commons licenses

[drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com>]

On Wednesday 26 September 2007 07:11 am, Javier Candeira wrote:
> jonathon wrote:
> > Several places in New South Wales, Australia have tried outright
> > banning of public photography.  Spain used to send people to gaol for
>
> The way you put it, trying to obtain a release would amount to confessing
> having broken that law banning photography of public documents, so I would
> advise not to attempt one. 

Not necessarily. I seem to recall advice being given to photographers that if 
they get model releases as a rule, then it gives them more optoions as to 
what they can do with the photo in the future.

Does that not make a bit of sense?

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>
> Also let's assume that Ueda and Iwai are USAmerican, and that nobody signed
> or asked for any type release; I just took their pics during a conference,
> and the publisher paid me for the license to print them in their
> encyclopedia.
>
> What have we (me or the publisher) done wrong, if at all? What's our risk?
>
> Javier

all the best,

drew