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Originally posted by BV
Unseenworld,
In answer to your question: What will you do?
IT DEPENDS ON THE CONTENT
Sexually explicit pictures you better have it.
Chics flashing their tits or ass in public you don't need it.
But the picture above I took on a public beach. I own that picture and no one can use it legally.
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I was not writing in response to you, but in response to TheNewGuy and his question. I had not beach picture in mind when I wrote.
However, I might as well mention here that (and I'm not an attorney, but I research these things quite a bit) that you're not entirely off the hook by taking a picture of someone in public. You also have to deal with "the right of publicity" especially if the person you are shooting has a career based on their likeness, and the law of torts, where you might get in trouble for what's called "false light," wherein you depict someone in a manner that ill reflects their true character. (In other words, if you make them appear bad through showing them in an image taken out of context. An extreme example would be showing someone in a KKK outfit that they wore merely as a costume in an anti-racism play, giving the false impression that they are a KKK member when the opposite is the case.)
You guys all want one or two line summaries of the law, which is a complicated thing. You should really be getting your legal advice from an attorney, but even attorneys are imperfect explainers of the law.
Even so, you don't go to lawyers for webmastering advice, why go to webmasters for legal advice?