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Understanding where photographers have the right to shoot

Understanding where photographers have the right to shoot

From the course: Copyright for Photographers: Rights and Releases

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Understanding where photographers have the right to shoot

Ben Long: So really I can think of it as if I'm the type of person who would not go to a website and say, "Here's this photo, I'll go use it "for something." Similarly, I shouldn't ignore the fact that there's that photo in my picture that I'm taking. I'm not going to go use that for something. Caroline Wright: That's right, we have to be cognizant. As copyright owners ourselves, we have to respect the rights of other copyright owners. Whether it's a painter, a sculptor. But when we're taking photographs we need to be careful about including copyrighted works in our photograph. Now, if you're just taking photos for vacation purposes, nobody's going to complain. Then if you take that photograph and use it for commercial purposes or licensing it, then that copyright owner probably was going to get upset. Ben Long: Right, right. So there's no place that, publicly accessible, they're not allowed to take a picture. Which means any time a cop or a guard or somebody comes up and tries to…

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