Your Picture Might Appear Anywhere
from the what-can-you-do? dept
An interesting Salon.com article talking about the legal issues involved with your picture. If you appear at a public place, someone takes your picture, and then puts it up online in order to sell it, is that legal? That seems to be the question, and no one is quite sure what the answer is. There’s a fuzzy line between public and private, and what people are allowed to do with images in each case.


Comments on “Your Picture Might Appear Anywhere”
Reminds me of a lawsuit..
Where a GirlGoneWild sued b/c she didn’t consent to getting publicity via those late nite TV ads….
Re: Reminds me of a lawsuit..
Nice link, but what’s it got to do with this article??
Re: Re: Reminds me of a lawsuit..
Stupid changing URLs. I’ll help mhh5 out with this other link about the Girls Gone Wild lawsuit.
And… actually, I think I tracked down the original article he meant to link to.
Re: Reminds me of a lawsuit..
With GirlsGoneWild she sued claiming the video makers got her drunk at a bar and then pushed her into a contest taking her top of for the express purposes of making their video. It makes this case a little more complicated than just taking a snap in a public place and publishing it without someone’s knowledge.
Phillip.
Re: Re: Naked
Well whatever happened…girl got 5 million dollars!
I’ll pose naked and drunk for 5 million dollars in a heartbeat…
But my roomates already know that.
msykes
Re: Re: Re: Naked
5 million??? My price is closer to 5 dollars. Is that so wrong?
Implicit copyright on your likeness
I sometimes take pictures of clients for my own private use (education and analysis). In my Consent form, I explicitly state that any pictures I take won’t be used for anything public without the expressed written permission of the client. Another client, who was an attourney, said that this was redundant but still nice to have it spelled out explicitly.
People have to grant permission to use photographs. If you don’t have a signed Release, you can’t use it. The web has not changed this part of the law.