Posted on 01/14/2023 4:10:53 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Stock photos are the type of thing where you earn on volume, not individual photos.
It’s called reading the contract and the small print.
And next up for replacement? Hollywood...
People sign stuff all the time they don’t read. Even me. When I install software on my phone or computer, I rarely read the text of the EULA that you sign by clicking the checkbox which says “I agree to the terms of use...”
That is how a huge amount of surveillance and tracking information is given away nowadays. We agree to be monitored on our cell phones. Granted, it is, to a degree, anonymized since they collecting entities may know who the cell phone is (via the MAC address which the applications using location services can and do provide) but someone knows who that MAC address belongs to.
All they have to do to reveal your movements is accept a subpoena to link a MAC address to a name (to a company like Apple which sold the phone) and be willing to buy tracking data with money from a company that warehouses that information.
Of course, I do read a lot of things I sign, but I fully admit to not reading some things like these EULA agreements.
—”That is how a huge amount of surveillance and tracking information is given away nowadays.”
And some of us give it all away!
After an evil car ran me over on my bicycle and the hospital took 12 hours to notify my wife (I slept through the first couple of weeks and recall nothing), I have the phone relay my location to my wife.
About once a month I receive a report on my travels and then some. They are usually close but sometimes far off.
One showed me on my regular ride with a speedy side trip about five miles north and back in just a few minutes to a location I had not visited in weeks???
But it’s kind of/ sort of FREE.
This happened to Jennifer who worked at WKRP in Cincinnati who had er... nude photos taken of her while in the change room at a photographers. He was going to sell them to a x-rated magazine.
The guys at the radio station managed to get the photos and negatives back.
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She certainly has a face and attitude suitable for horror.
And the bonnet is extra classy when you’re carrying around an extra 200lbs.
—”WKRP “
One of the very few TV shows worth watching, also the spinoff Frank’s place.
“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”
—”And the bonnet is extra classy when you’re carrying around an extra 200lbs.”
All that and no one has used your likeness for any possible product? At any price, even free.
I read the fine print.
—”I read the fine print.”
A perfect answer!
You should win the internet or something.
In the US…not usually.
If you sign a release, you waive your rights. The only way she could make a legal argument would be if her face were used in pornography.
I have done photo work and without a release the photographer can be sued for simply publishing a photograph. My art needs to be protected.
Of course the model is compensated with either money or port photos in payment, making it a legal transaction so the model cannot claim later that he/she was not compensated.
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