Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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.