19 Jul
2009
19 Jul
'09
3:16 a.m.
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 09:37:12PM +0200, Roberto Gordo Saez wrote:
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 05:14:17PM -0700, Norval
Watson wrote:
And they can be a huge problem.
I have some fantastic footage of a band I've worked with, shot at a local club, but
the owners of the club and the videographer won't let me post it anywhere or otherwise
use it for promotional purposes or for sale, because there may be shots of people in the
audience whose images we don't have written permission to use. They're worried
about lawsuits and have apparently been bitten by this before.
So, to clear the rights to use it, someone needs to go through it frame by frame and edit
out or get clearance from every audience member who might appear, which none of us have
time to do.
Actually, they already did that editing on some of it, cutting out a few milliseconds here
and there of music. Not too noticeable until I tried to sync up my clean Zoom audio to it,
and found it going out of sync constantly because of the guts.
-ken
I have very little understanding of copyright law
but I thought it
might be OK to use stuff if the artist/author had been dead for 50
years or more? Maybe the museums could claim copyright on the picture
frames? ;)
Norv
It's not copyright, there are other laws. Quoting Wikipedia:
"Particularly in relation to photographers a number of other
considerations may also restrict your right to take or publish
photographs. For example a photograph of a person may infringe their
right to privacy. Similarly you may not have the right to take
photographs in non-public locations. These restrictions are often
mistakenly referred to as copyright infringements when in fact other
laws apply."
Those laws are not universal, they change from one country to another. It
is usually forbiden on many european countries to publish photos taken on
non-public locations unless a permission is previously granted. Sometimes
taking photos of public locations is also forbiden, and the laws can be
quite complex and boring, see example:
http://4020.net/words/photorights.php