Hummm... I wonder why I bother to get property releases then?
You must not live in the US. Here you can sue anybody for
anything, you may not win, but you can file the suit and have
your day in court.
There is a book titled "The Law and the Photographer". Anyone
who wants to know the right of this argument (one that is ended
with this post as far as I am concerned) ought to read it.
Peter Alling wrote:
>
> Tom, You're wrong. Go talk to your lawyer. The suits would have
> no standing. No judge would allow it into court since it would be
> a waste of his time.
>
> At 03:57 AM 7/17/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >Take a picture of someones house from the public street and sell
> >it to an ad agency who puts it up on billboards all over the
> >country, uses it in a magazine ad campaign, and otherwise
> >indicates there is money involved. The owner will have a hundred
> >lawyers offering to sue you for him for a percentage of the
> >take. I hope you have high limit liability insurance 'cause he
> >is going to win.
> >
> >
> >Peter Alling wrote:
> > >
> > > There is no such doctrine as long as you don't misrepresent what
> > > the photograph shows then there is nothing the property owner can
> > > do about you if you publish a photo of their property taken from a
> > > public venue.
> > >
> > > At 07:36 PM 7/16/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> > > >In the US it is a matter of is the picture in the public
> > > >interest or not. Public interest is photojournalistic, etc.
> > > >Private interested is commercial. The property owner has the
> > > >right to exploit his property and to prevent others from
> > > >doing so.
> >
> >
> >--
> >Tom "Graywolf" Rittenhouse
> >Graywolf Photo, Charlotte, NC, USA
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