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I am curious to know if I can make my girlfriend sign a document giving me the absolute rights of all the photographs I might click of hers. [I am only hypothet

by tn13 13y ago

I am curious to know if I can make my girlfriend sign a document giving me the absolute rights of all the photographs I might click of hers. [I am only hypothetically speaking.]

jimktrains2 13y ago
You own the rights to any photo you take, regardless of who is in it. However, you can't use the subject to advertise or endorse something w/o their consent iirc (ianal).
- grecy 13y ago
  >You own the rights to any photo you take, regardless of who is in it. Are you sure? I remember reading about a bunch of lawsuits against people that had taken photos of iconic shapes (coke bottle, certain cars) and the maker of the iconic shape claimed copyright. (I can't find a link right now)
  - jimktrains2 13y ago
    How was that image being used was probably important in those cases.
    - grecy 13y ago
      Are you saying that even though I own the copyright to an image I can't use it however I want? (Genuinely confused)
      - jimktrains2 13y ago
        Yes. You can't use the subject of the image to advertise or otherwise promote something without the subjects consent, but the image itself is your property. You could take a picture of a random person in public and publish it in a gallery, but you couldn't use that image to sell your brand of pop, iirc and ianal. Sorry I can't find a good link right now.
- gamblor956 13y ago
  You own the rights to the photo...but that does not necessarily give you the rights to the object(s) photographed, or in the case of a person, to their likeness.
roel_v 13y ago
The issue in this case was not about the rights on these pictures, it was about what was done with them, apart from IE issues. You can't enter into a contract that will let you do illegal things to somebody. So you can't enter into a contract that will let you extort her. Of course once a contract exists that says you can do anything you want with the pictures, the bar for being 'extortion' will be much higher. It will still be contextually defined by a judge though. It all depends on the exact circumstances.
cookingrobot 13y ago
It's called a model release.
detcader 13y ago
Why would you be interested in such a thing, even hypothetically

by tn13 13y ago

I am curious to know if I can make my girlfriend sign a document giving me the absolute rights of all the photographs I might click of hers. [I am only hypothetically speaking.]

jimktrains2 13y ago

You own the rights to any photo you take, regardless of who is in it. However, you can't use the subject to advertise or endorse something w/o their consent iirc (ianal).

grecy 13y ago
>You own the rights to any photo you take, regardless of who is in it. Are you sure? I remember reading about a bunch of lawsuits against people that had taken photos of iconic shapes (coke bottle, certain cars) and the maker of the iconic shape claimed copyright. (I can't find a link right now)
- jimktrains2 13y ago
  How was that image being used was probably important in those cases.
  - grecy 13y ago
    Are you saying that even though I own the copyright to an image I can't use it however I want? (Genuinely confused)
    - jimktrains2 13y ago
      Yes. You can't use the subject of the image to advertise or otherwise promote something without the subjects consent, but the image itself is your property. You could take a picture of a random person in public and publish it in a gallery, but you couldn't use that image to sell your brand of pop, iirc and ianal. Sorry I can't find a good link right now.
gamblor956 13y ago
You own the rights to the photo...but that does not necessarily give you the rights to the object(s) photographed, or in the case of a person, to their likeness.

roel_v 13y ago

The issue in this case was not about the rights on these pictures, it was about what was done with them, apart from IE issues. You can't enter into a contract that will let you do illegal things to somebody. So you can't enter into a contract that will let you extort her. Of course once a contract exists that says you can do anything you want with the pictures, the bar for being 'extortion' will be much higher. It will still be contextually defined by a judge though. It all depends on the exact circumstances.

cookingrobot 13y ago

It's called a model release.

detcader 13y ago

Why would you be interested in such a thing, even hypothetically