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gatherings of people - does a photographer need people permission for commercial purposes
Subject: gatherings of people - does a photographer need people permission
for commercial purposes From: " EnterYour Full Name " Date: Mon, Oct 6, 2003 11:07 AM Message-id: What are commercial purposes though? When something (in this case, a photograph) is used to sell or promote a product or a service. Surely anything that appears in magazine/newspaper/website/television is a commercial use. Surely not... It may be on the News, but the TV station doesn't make a news program for fun - it makes it for a profit. It's exactly the same with newspapers and magazines. If it appears in the news program to illustrate a story/for informational/educational purposes then it is non-commercial - if it appears in a commercial during that news broadcast's commercial break in order to sell a product or a service it is being commercially used. Therein lies the difference. Same thing goes for a photo that is used to illustrate the subject of an article (editorial usage) while the same photo used in the same magazine as an ad to seel toothpaste or life insurance (or whatever) would be a commercial usage. Its a very simple concept. The only non-commercial use therefore, is if you publish in a free to view medium with no advertisements. Not so, see above. This just isn't going to happen, unless you print a photo just for yourself to hang on your own wall. See above. Lewis Check out my photos at "LEWISVISION": http://members.aol.com/Lewisvisn/home.htm Remove "nospam" to reply |
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