>        Hasn't this question come up before?  Perhaps I am thinking of
>another list.  Anyway, as I recall the general opinion at the end of a long
>series of posts was that photographs of people, including children, made
>from some distance away so that individual identity was blurred were ok.
>It was also mentioned that persons in public places, especially in groups,
>don't necessarily have the kinds of rights to the use of their images that
>they would have in private places.  There's a famous case of the couple in
>the movie "Woodstock" who were photographed making love in an open field.
>They sued for invasion of privacy and compensation for the use of their
>images.  They lost, because no one can have an expectation of privacy in a
>public place.
>        Laws and whatever aside, why not contact one or more local TV
>stations about their policies?  When do they feel required to ask for
>releases, and when do they feel that they do not have to do so?  It seems
>to me that if they followed the rather draconian "rules" mentioned
>previously, they'd each have to have fulltime staff just to handle to
>problems of rights.
>
>        Adrienne DeAngelis

I think the key here is as stated above: the public vs. private space.  In
a recent university publication, we went with the policy that if the photo
was taken of someone in a public place at an event that was open to the
public, then no permission was needed even, if the person was recognizable.
Anna Fariello


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