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  • From: drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com>
  • To: Javier Candeira <javier AT candeira.com>, Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Permission to publish a photo of a person, a work of art, a building
  • Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:20:49 -0400

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?

snip
>
> 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




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