Stanley Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: >On Feb 11, 2014, at 10:26 AM, Igor Roshchin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I perfectly understand everybody's outrage from this craigslist ad. >> But what if I told you that it is socially acceptable and even totally legal >> (at least in the US) and it has been going for ages? > >And this all makes sense, for example, in the case where I hire two assistants >to help me shoot a wedding. Not just with lighting, etc. but actual shooting. >Those are my photos, the assistants are doing work for hire. As a good boss I >could let them use their shots in their personal portfolio, but I dont need >to. > >The craigslist example, though, is off in another dimension. The guy wants to >buy existing stuff and pawn it off as his own. It might be legal in a >copyright >case but it is fraudulent, deceptive, slimy, inappropriate behavior as far as >I >am concerned.
And, as I pointed out earlier, he's completely screwed from the standpoint of model releases. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
