Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:59 PM 4/12/98 -0400, you wrote: >responsible newspaper photographer will get (and probably always has been >getting) a release if he/she photographs someone eating an ice cream cone >in the park to illustrate an article on the coming of Spring. Just makes >sense. Hard news pictures will still be published without being affected >by the ruling. Life will go on. Actually, newspaper photographers here do not need releases. That's a big benefit of working here, and why we find this ruling troublesome. All we need is to have to get someone to sign a piece of paper. They are often suspicious of what we will be doing with our pictures (other than just putting it in the paper) already without them thinking we're going to make a killing (money-wise) off their picture. I think you have to be a newspaper photographer here to understand why it would be a problem. It wouldn't be the single situation where we'd need a release a problem, but what about a parade? (I hardly consider parades news). ========== Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.