Your maximun liability is everything you own and everything you earn for
the rest of your life. They can not legally attach your wife, kids, and
grandkids in the US (don't laugh, that has happened many times through
out history).
Your main out is that the person's attorneys will have to see something
in it for them, unless the person is rich enough to just pay them
outright for handling the case.
graywolf
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http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf
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Tom C wrote:
It's likely a different scenario risk-wise, liability-wise, etc.,
depending on whether one T-shirt is sold or 100,000.
If a photographer makes, for sake of argument, $1000 on the publication
of an image, does their potential liability extend beyond that $1000?
To my way of thinking, no. In today's legal system, likely yes.
Tom C.
From: Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: "pentax list" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: copyrights
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 23:38:46 +0100
On 3/4/06, Tom C, discombobulated, unleashed:
>Thinking along these lines though, TV stations routinely shoot
footage on
>street corners, at public events., etc., of persons who have not given
>explicit signed consent to be photographed. Nor have they given
consent for
>the footage to be aired. That footage is shown on television news.
>Stepping out on a limb... Somewhat implicit in everything a news
>organization (at least here in the US) does is the idea that it will
attract
>advertisers and readership/viewership, hence generate income. I
don't see
>the difference in showing a picture on the air vs. on a T-shirt.
This is all editorial useage.
The question is whether the act of walking down a public highway,
wearing a T-shirt with a picture of a person(s) on it comes under this
same editorial useage, or whether it is classed as 'commercial' (as in
commercial gain).
This would be an interesting test case!
Cheers,
Cotty
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