On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 5:45 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > True - and there were lots of just disgusting and unjustifiable images
> from
> > Newtown, particularly those abusive images of young children who had just
> > escaped.
>
> I thought Federal law states you can't put a minor on the news without
> a parent's permission, but I'm seeing it more and more in situations
> where it seems less and less likely that a parent would have done such
> a thing. Perhaps it is just a California law?


A lot of the worst of the Newtown images of course were of children who
were being pimped....er, put forward by their parents. I would like to know
what the actual laws are. My understanding is that here in CA permission of
parents is needed for commercial use of images of children, but if the
image is taken in a public place and is published by a news organization
(not sure how "blogs" fit in there) then permission is not required. I was
on an elementary school board for some years when my kids were younger, and
we had occasion once to discuss (and ultimately deny) allowing children to
be interviewed or photographed for a news story - but our control there was
based on the interviews and images being taken on school grounds. I don't
think that we or the parents could have stopped reporters from taking
photographs of a 10 year old who left our school to walk home, but maybe I
am wrong about that.

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