Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. ;-) >> > ________________________________________________________ > feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 www.elanphotos.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >