Legality

Hi Dave,

What are the legalities involved with selling your prints (or publishing a book for that matter) that prominently feature people in the images you create - are release forms or something to that effect required? (B.G. Oregon)

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I get asked this a lot. My understanding - and it might be wrong is that if you take pictures of people for "editorial" use (i.e. not for an advertisement) and you are on public property, and you aren't defaming them -- you can display them on the web or print them and sell them without a release. If they aren't identifiable - then for editorial they are definitely not a problem. And I imagine the laws are different by country, possibly by state.

(Am I anywhere near correct?) Probably not. But for sure it is not practical to get model releases for street work.

Black Stairs

A Little Romance

worm returns

Zotab.x is the latest worm/virus to make its' way around the world.

Don't the attachments have to be in the form of something executable? Couldn't you simply prevent anything like .scr, .exe, .com, .bat .doc from being saved or run from an e-mail.

If someone had a jpg with the worm, and they opened the jpg - the worm couldn't start executing, could it? I don't think so.

Somebody told me that it was possible for an attachment to infect your PC without actually opening it. What do you think? Is that true?