Hi all,

Hopefully you've all seen the new law feature in the mag this month - I hope you like it.

I was just wondering if anyone had any specific questions they'd like me to get our legal guru, Linda, to answer? You could post them on this thread or email to me at rachael.dcruze@futurenet.co.uk

Many thanks,

Rach @ DCM

Hi Rach

Whats the law regarding non nude glamour images regarding age. I've been shooting some stuff for a Japanese website, mainly burlesque style with some general lingerie with a 22 year old model. I've been approached by 17 year old looking for similar work but I'm a bit concerned about her age. Morally I think I'm going to ask her to come back next year, but whats the legal position ? My contact in Japan said theres no issue with their laws, what about ours ?

Great question Colin, I'll certainly get Linda to answer it for you.

Cheers, Rach @ DCM

I'd like to know why building release forms are needed because, as I understand it, buildings can't be copyrighted.

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Good question, I'll pass it on. Rach

how about getting our legal rep to address the do's and don'ts of people accessing and using other photographers images direct from the web for their own projects see link below

http://community.dcmag.co.uk/forums/832217/ShowThread.aspx#832217

 

stuart

DCmag Team:

Hi all,

Hopefully you've all seen the new law feature in the mag this month - I hope you like it.

I was just wondering if anyone had any specific questions they'd like me to get our legal guru, Linda, to answer? You could post them on this thread or email to me at rachael.dcruze@futurenet.co.uk

Many thanks,

Rach @ DCM

Hi,

yes I have seen it, great article. Please can we have the article and all susiquent articles accessable from the DCMag home, web page, I wont have copies of all the DCMags with me, (sorry), but I usually can get web access.

In the article it talked about a card stating our rights to take photos, please can DCMag produce a similar card and send it out in one of the mags?

Also question from, me

What powers do the police have to stop you using a tripod in a public place? If they do, whats the rationale behind that?

recently heard of a Japanese tourist who was moved on by the police because he was assembling a tripod to take a phot of trouping the colour. Aparently, taking photos without a tripod was ok?

thxs

Keith

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stuartmke:

how about getting our legal rep to address the do's and don'ts of people accessing and using other photographers images direct from the web for their own projects see link below

http://community.dcmag.co.uk/forums/832217/ShowThread.aspx#832217

 

stuart

Hi Stuart,

didnt mean to duplicate your suggestion below More haste less speed.

Keith

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Stuart - I'll certainly raise this.

Keith - Good question, interested to know the answer!
I'll talk to Marcus about the other points you've raised too.

Thank you for all the input guys! Rach

sedlescombe:

stuartmke:

how about getting our legal rep to address the do's and don'ts of people accessing and using other photographers images direct from the web for their own projects see link below

http://community.dcmag.co.uk/forums/832217/ShowThread.aspx#832217

 

stuart

Hi Stuart,

didnt mean to duplicate your suggestion below More haste less speed.

Keith

Hi Keith,

I don't think you have duplicated my post. I was just drawing attention to the fact that DCM has a thread going where the poster is seeking to find sites where he can download images for use in personal project. As copyright of images are owned by the photographer, I thought it was interesting request and there were legalities that the poster might not be aware of when scouring the web for images to use.

Hi,

I seem to remember reading that a newspaper is supposed to state the owner of the copyright of any image it publishes every time to publishes it. My local, provincial newspaper does not always do this.

 

Being a local newspaper and, naturally, featuring local news, the paper uses a lot of photographs that are sent in by readers. For the by-line they usually say “submitted picture.”

 

Can you enlighten me, please?

JamesHarvey

This follows on somewhat from what someone briefly touched upon earlier and has to do with Copyright. I was reading Scott Kelby's blogg a little earlier in which one was able to watch an interview that he did with an American lawyer. The video interview was in two parts, with the first part concentrating on the rights of photographers to take pictures of public buildings etc from public places i.e. the pavement or sidewalk. Now UK law is very much different to American law which indeed is also different state to state so I won't mention my observations here.

However, what did raise my interest was something that was said in part 2 of the video http://www.scottkelby.com/blog/ (dated today 4th July) concerning copyright. The question presented by Scott was what rights do you have when someone downloads and uses an image from your website which of course could equally be applied here. You could also apply the question as to what rights do you have when someone downloads and uses your images from your gallery?

The lawyers reply was quite interesting and forms the basis of my question here, namely, that unless you have 'registered' your copyright then you are essentially powerless to do anything about it even though you have put a nice big copyright symbol and your name by the image. He then goes on about certain time scales regarding when 'registration' should be executed. I wonder could you perhaps verify whether the same copyright laws apply over here with respect to the need to register your image copyright? The full interview (approx 10 mins) can be found with the link that I have provided above. Thank you.

Edit: I should also add perhaps the question of what affect laws made in the States have on UK/Eurpoean photographers.

Had a read of the Law Feature this month and liked it, but felt it was a tad short.

Is this likely to become a regular feature of the mag? I hope so.

Points for are...

1.   This is an ongoing subject which is always throwing up incidents and situations that require clarificiation.

2.   The Law on this subject is constantly being tested, modified and updated either via case law,  statute which means we need to know when the photographers rights and duties have changed.

3.   A regular feature may be inclined to have a fvourable effect on the readership or even subscriptions.

4.   After a while, the regular articles could be made into a single volume that might be available provided as a bonus to subscibers or available as a seperate purchase. Were it to be provided in a loose leaf format then it could attract a subscription in itslef as an updatable publication.

Points against...

Can't think of any!

Andrew

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My Snaps

The Home Secretary seems to be saying unequivocably that Chief Constables have the right to impose restrictions on photography (see HERE). This also came up in the various letters sent out by Tony McNulty MP to MPs to forward onto their constituents who raised concerns.

I can't see that there is any law to give Chief Constables this right, could Linda let us know if this is correct?

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veggiesosage:

The Home Secretary seems to be saying unequicocably that Chief Constables have the right to impose restrictions on photography (see HERE). This also came up in the various letters sent out by Tony McNulty MP to MPs to forwrad onto their constituents who raised concerns.

I can't see that there is any law to give Chief Constables this right, could Linda let us know if this is correct?

Hi

thnaks for the link, I dont like this snip from article...

"However, the Home Secretary adds that local restrictions might be enforced. 'Decisions may be made locally to restrict or monitor photography in reasonable circumstances. That is an operational decision for the officers involved based on the individual circumstances of each situation."

End snip

What does resonable mean ? Surely this statemenet allows the police to restrict photography when ever they like, anything can be reasonable ?

Keith

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