From: Bathsheba Grossman (sheba@bathsheba.com)
Date: Sat Jun 08 2002 - 02:36:26 EEST
On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 PENQUAKR74@aol.com wrote:
> The person, if it is a person that you take a picture of, has certain rights
> to use of his or her image. In certain instances, even objects have been
> copyrighted: The Cypress Tree at Spy Glass Country Club in Carmel, California
> is an object that cannot be photographed without permission. Until the owner
> of the image, the person or object photographed, releases his or image for
> publication, the photographer cannot copyright the image or use it
> commercially.
Letting out the case of objects whose likenesses are specifically
copyrighted, surely this either doesn't apply or isn't enforced in the
case of news and art photography? Otherwise crowd scenes could never
be shown in newspapers.
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