Re: Publishing pictures

In Message Thu, 24 Feb 1994 19:22:58 -0500,   Jackie Mackay <mackay[_at_]cognito.demon.co.uk> writes:

>I'd say it was just to photograph anything in a public place - after
>all you can photograph a person in the street and put their face in a
>postcard for Picadilly Circus and sell it - as a photojournalist I
>would fight for that right....if I had to :-)

In the U.K. you might well prevail, but not in the U.S. In most jurisdictions such a clearly commercial exploitation of an individual's image would give rise to a successful right of privacy (or right of publicity, depending on your view of celebrity) claim.

Sheldon W. Halpern
Professor of Law
The Ohio State University College of Law Received on Fri Feb 25 1994 - 15:18:36 GMT