I suspect that if you look at the program from any performance of the Philadelphia Orchestra, there will be a statement to the effect that all recording and photography rights are reserved -- just as they are when you go to nearly any concert, I don't care whether it's the Rolling Stones or Raffi. The fact that the concert was free and in a public place doesn't override their right to control publication of photographs of the orchestra - and posting of photographs on a web site does constitute publication. Frankly, I'm quite surprised that people find this so surprising! Kathleen
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 7/23/2007 6:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [UC] Photos from the orchestra in the park In a message dated 7/23/2007 6:08:21 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the Philadelphia Orchestra should be ashamed The orchestra and its second-string (good enough for the bumpkins) conductor only got $80,000 to oom-pah in the specially-seeded Clark Park bowl. So they obviously made a big sacrifice to grace our little community and should at least have exclusive rights to audio and visual records of their having been there. After all, if you were the great Philadelphia Orchestra -- and had to stoop to come to a place where there might be mosquitos, screaming children, Neanderthals who wouldn't know Buxtehude from Albinoni, unleashed dogs (some of them mongrel), anarchists, greedy slumlords, lawyers, the anointed, the benighted, and others too depraved to even think about -- for a measly $80,000, wouldn't you want to be sure that any and all documentation of the embarrassment was in your hands so it could be suppressed too? Al Krigman Left of Richard Wagner ________________________________ Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL.com <http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour/?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000982> .
