Here's an interesting quandry: I may be in a position to sell a photo. The prospective user is a local festival and the photo is of the start of a 10k race with all the runners coming toward the camera (it's at http://www.robertstech.com/graphics/pages/7d101407.htm).
I originally took the photo for editorial use, so no model releases were necessary then, but they *would* be necessary for commercial use. Except that the prospective buyer is the festival/race organizer whose entry forms (that all the runners signed before being allowed in the race) stipulated that photos taken during the event could be used by the organizers for promotional purposes. So it seems that the race organizers do have the right to use the photo without getting signed releases from everyone recognizable in the picture. (Try to count them!) My feeling is that the race promoters clearly have the right to use the photo and that I'm OK as long as I don't try to sell it to anyone else. Any thoughts? -- Mark Roberts www.robertstech.com - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
