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Ladies,if you were at dragoncon and some guy asked to take a picture for "women of dragoncon" you might want to see if you're on his site (http://smigrod.smugmug.com/Events/10...9_DUwSm#P-1-25) and give him an earfull--he's making a profit off your image without having you sign a model release.
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Date: 2009-09-13 01:36 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-09-13 02:13 pm (UTC)That being said, my group was photographed by a mainstream media photographer and we had to have the 'consent waiver' in the first picture.
Unless this guy got a really great shot, I can't see him making too much money off of it. D*C is one of the most publicly photographed events of the year, and you can probably find the same shot (or better) on the web for free. Maxim is featuring the Girls of DragonCon (http://www.maxim.com/girls/girls-of-maxim/84060/girls-dragon-con-part-1.html) on their site and I heard that Hustler magazine had a photographer there as well.
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Date: 2009-09-13 04:40 pm (UTC)He also took photos of people who were not, in any capacity, Dragoncon members. I have a photograph in there (You can't see my face, as I'm wearing a mask), that I'm pretty sure was taken during the parade. It is entirely possible that he wasn't even at Dragoncon.
He might be able to squeak by because I'm pretty sure they were taken in a public place, but that law is iffy. The vast majority of these photos were taken so that you can tell who the person is. Generally, a model release is required in these cases, because he is selling a person's image without their permission.
Let's not even get into another whole can of worms by selling photographs of copyrighted characters.
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Date: 2009-09-13 04:24 pm (UTC)Now, that said, anyone who was filmed and doesn't wish to be part of the production needs only to send in a request to be blurred out and we honor that request. I am not a producer so I don't know if that means we Have to, or if we do because we're honest and don't want any negativity attached to the project. But we are not required to post Anything about who we are and where to contact us should someone not want to be filmed because of the legalese on the tickets.
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Date: 2009-09-13 06:29 pm (UTC)You also secured permission from the event, which this guy obviously didn't.
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Date: 2009-09-13 04:51 pm (UTC)has anyone heard back from him?
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Date: 2009-09-13 06:39 pm (UTC)The problem is normally when someone goes to profit from the sale of the photo--particularly selling someone's likeness. If you don't have a signed release form from the model stating you can do this (not all releases detail this), then there's a problem as you have no legal documentation saying you can profit from the featured person in the photo.
And actually if the person downloads your photo, and prints it themselves w/o your permission then they're violating your copyright.
At the same time, news outlets don't need to get such papers because it's for 'editorial' purposes.
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