At 06:36 PM 5/19/2003 -0400, Tom Trottier (in reply to Les Clark) wrote:
>On Monday, May 19, 2003 at 15:29
>ll.clark@xxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> In <3EC84168.F746BFF2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, on 05/18/03
>> at 10:28 PM, Larry <halpert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>>
>> >That whole area is great for editorial type people shots.
>>
>> Hasn't Canada enacted legislation recently that makes it quite dodgy to
>> photograph anyone even in public without their
>> signing a model release?
>
>In Canada, the subject owns the copyright only if they commissioned you to do
>the pictures.
Tom:
That's true, but the issue under consideration is actually whether there's a
violation of personal privacy, *not* copyright infringement. The photographer
would normally own the copyright, but may not have the right to do anything
with the photo without a model release (or some other legal instrument), lest
the subject's privacy be compromised in some fashion.
Garth
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