Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/20

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Subject: [Leica] Photojournalists and permission
From: robertmeier at usjet.net (Robert Meier)
Date: Wed Apr 20 09:03:33 2005
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Selling a print in a gallery has no restrictions, as far as I know.  You are 
selling only the physical print, not any rights to reproduce it.  It's when 
you sell reproduction rights, especially commercial rights, that you run 
into restrictions.



> Ok, so let me se if I really understand this.
>
> a) In the USA, anyone in a public place is free game to be photographed.
>
> b) But, if the individual is recognizable in the shot, there are certain 
> caveats
> to selling then image.
>
> So, is a street photographer still able to sell that image to a gallery, 
> or as a book
> as long as the editorial aspect doesn't slander or misrepresent the 
> subject?
>
> Would Winogrand be in jail these days?
>
> Anyone?
>
> Feli
>
>
> On Apr 20, 2005, at 6:49 AM, B. D. Colen wrote:
>
>> With the caveat that the homeless have the same protections in regard to
>> their images that the rest of us have - they may not be used for
>> commercial purposes without their expressed permission. Further, anyone
>> using images of a homeless person on the street for editorial purposes
>> better be damn sure that they have all their facts straight. For
>> instance, if one used a shot of an identifiable homeless person - for
>> instance my ALDO guy - as an illustration for a story on the ultimate
>> horrors of alcoholism, and that homeless person was not an alcoholic and
>> was hooked up with an attorney, one would be insuring that the homeless
>> person was able to purchase his own home. ;-)
>>
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