Rights of the photographer

samfurlong

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9 May 2007 - 10:16 PM

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There are grey areas but generally you are fine. As a press tog photograph people day in day out, sometimes with, sometimes without their permission. As long as you're in a public place you are fine.
Many people will say you need model releases but it depends what you are going to do withthe images. if you are shooting (say) a major ad campaign thats going to make someone a lot of money and the images are going to be 30ft high on billboards then model releases might be a good idea. However if your intentions are more modest - say an exhibition (even a big one at a bIg venue), a book, website, newspaper supplement, magazine etc.. then you'll be fine.
Be careful of papping people in situations which could cast them in less than a favorable light as they could get grumpy (e.g. a person appearing to be visiting a brothel) when in fact they were just walking past). That said, if the said person really was visiting the brotel then they are fair game to be photographed and the images published / exhibited etc..

In all cases copyright of pics belongs to you and you alone unless you sign a contract givingit to someone else, no exceptions, it's yours period! And you are entitled to make money off them any way you wish, but as i said, be careful because if (say)brothel man comes after you because you made money by implying he visited a brotel when i fact he didn't then you'll be in trouble.

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