Subject: gatherings of people - does a photographer need people permission
for commercial purposes
From: Mxsmanic
Date: Mon, Oct 6, 2003 12:11 PM
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Enter Your Full Name writes:

What are commercial purposes though?

Advertising, product endorsement, works of fiction (movies, TV,
whatever), anything that presents a person's image as being anything
other than what it is (i.e., showing a person's face and saying "this
could be a crook"), and so on.

SNIP

That last bit about "anything that presents a person's image as being anything
other than what it is (i.e., showing a person's face and saying "this
could be a crook")" is about libel and libel applies to both editorial
(non-commercial) and commercial usages as well. Libel and commercial usages are
two entirely different matters/subjects that may or may not overlap, depending
upon whether whether the subject was indeed mis-represented regardless of
whether they were mis-represented in a commercial or an editorial usage.

Lewis

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