Filed under: Law, Consumer experience, Rants and raves, Yahoo! (YHOO)

I first took up a camera around the age of nine, but it wasn’t until I discovered Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO)’s Flickr photo-sharing site that my “career” in photography really took off. While I’m certainly not hitting the runways of Milan with my Pentax PZ-1P anytime soon, this year I sold several photographs and permitted dozens of others to use my work under the Creative Commons license with which I offer my photos. (My choice is a non-commercial attribution license; as I use many of my photos for work, here on BloggingStocks, I’d hate to see rivals utilizing them as well.)

After extensive conversations with IP attorneys and other authorities in the industry, and given my responsibility of overseeing the use of thousands of photos each year, my grasp of all the legal issues surrounding commercial use of intellectual property is deep. One of the thorniest issues is that of what’s called “model release,” in other words, if someone’s IN your photo, can you still use it?

Continue reading How Yahoo!’s Flickr helps, and hurts, photographers’ rights

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