Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] ELEKTRONIX
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 17:25:43 -0400
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From what I understand - from what's been written - she has no interest
in overriding the parents wishes. That is why she gave them the rights.
Some times lawyers are irrelevant. ;-)


Mxsmanic wrote:
> 
> B. D. Colen writes:
> 
> > ... Aileen Smith has given all rights to the
> > image to the child's parents, and they in turn
> > have asked that it never again be displayed...
> > in any form...
> 
> In some jurisdictions (including France), Ms. Smith can override the parents'
> wishes, because she cannot legally sign away _all_ her rights to the image (so
> she can claim them back, in certain cases).  In other jurisdctions, she's out of
> luck.
> 
> I don't think there are good photographers so much as there are good
> photographs.  So-called good photographers just have a higher success rate, but
> all photographers--no matter how "good" they are--get mostly rejects when they
> take pictures.  Sometimes I think that the real difference between good and bad
> photographers is that the good ones know which images to publish.

In reply to: Message from "Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com> ([Leica] ELEKTRONIX)
Message from "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> (Re: [Leica] ELEKTRONIX)
Message from "Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic@hotmail.com> (Re: [Leica] ELEKTRONIX)