November Meeting Wrap-up

Our November meeting was jam packed with useful information. We had 47 people in attendance!

Presentation – Special Speaker – Tim Blodgett

PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE LAW

Tim came well prepared to share with us about how the law relates to photography.

 3 TYPES OF PROPERTY

• Personal Property
• Real Property
• Intellectual Property – The Charter of Rights now protects intellectual property like digital images

COPYRIGHT ACT RSC, 19850, C-45

who has ownership of an image?

• before 2011 – pictures belong to person who pays for it
• after 2011 – property of photographer

COPYRIGHT

refers to the rights to produce, reproduce, sell or license

• automatically belongs to the creator (photographer)
• starts when you take the picture
• ends 50 years after death
• to identify your copyright “© person’s name, year taken”

LEGAL PROTECTIONS

when someone breaches copyright they may face

• civil liability
• financial penalties
• jail

PHOTOGRAPHING PEOPLE

their moral rights – these cannot be licensed or assigned

• is there a reasonable expectation of privacy?
• does the image misrepresent them?
• does the image violate their integrity?

MODLE RELEASE

A model release is a contract that falls under Common Law. To be valid it must have:

1. Offer
2. Acceptance
3. Consideration (payment or compensation)

It can be written or oral.

LAW AND SOCIAL NETWORKS

Facebook terms are in privacy and application settings

• permission to display but not sell
• protecting other peoples rights
• agreed not to break copyright law

REAL WORLD APPLICATION

• Privacy – right of privacy – yes or no?
  • if in public, you can take picture
• If selling the picture, you should get a Model Release signed
• If for artistic purposes, no Model Release needed

Thank you Tim for all the useful information and answering our questions

Presentation and Tutorial

• Cropping

Photo Critique of members pictures for October Theme

• Deterioration
• excellent participation by many members
• check out the images here

Website Update

• Website is functional and needs our pics.
• sign in will be on the right side of the page
  • when you have signed in you will be sent a link through email
• on website you will be able to upload pictures for the monthly themes to Gallery
  • image security
    • download is disabled
    • resolution is low – 1440 pixels wide

November Theme

• Unusual Lighting (not daylight or flash)