PETA steps in and the poor photographer whose gear was used by theft by the monkey is deemed screwed
Just saw this on TV 5 minutes ago.
If you have a monkey keep a close eye on him/her and lock up your cameras!
PPA help!
PETA steps in and the poor photographer whose gear was used by theft by the monkey is deemed screwed
Just saw this on TV 5 minutes ago.
If you have a monkey keep a close eye on him/her and lock up your cameras!
PPA help!
Tin Can
Well, obviously, the photographer should have hade the monkey sign a release.
"I love my Verito lens, but I always have to sharpen everything in Photoshop..."
If the photographer had a release from that monkey, what is going to happen?
Really good selfies!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pict...-pictures.html
Tin Can
Isn't there an issue here with model releases?
Randy,
What exactly did you see? The PETA lawsuit (Naruto v. David John Slater et al.) doesn’t look it’s even on the calendar yet.
I understand that PETA's lawyer is taking the case ProBongo.
This was on CNN a couple of weeks ago. The issue seems to be media companies, etc. trying to weasel out of paying the photographer royalties for the shot. They maintain that since the photographer didn't click the shutter himself, but just let the monkey play with the camera, that the resulting photograph wasn't taken by him, and therefore, he owns no rights to it. Whether the monkey owns the rights or the photo ends up in public domain or, as it should be, the photographer gets to retain rights hasn't been decided yet.
Doremus
I hope if there is any release from the monkey that he throws it at the lawyers!
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