Not sure if this is the right place to discuss about this. Mods, feel free to move it to the right forum if this is not the right place.
Recently, I was tasked to cover an event as an official photographer together with few others (all of us are just volunteers and not paid). Who owns the rights to the images?
The event organizer or us, the photographers?
For me, it's simple. I know some of the rest there who don't like their pictures to be made pubilc and I will scan through my pictures to make sure that I will not accidentally load their pictures online although so far I was not told by anyone to delete my pictures.
There is another photographer that we specifically informed not to post up pictures of certain people. He did not acknowledge and carried on to do so. When he was asked to remove the pictures, he brushed it off by claiming that no names were mentioned. Is that right? He also claimed that the event organizer owns the rights to the images which I'm puzzled since we are not paid to do the job, shouldn't us as volunteer photographers own the rights to the pictures?
By the way, the event was open to public.
I do hope that this can turn out to be a meaningful discussion.
Recently, I was tasked to cover an event as an official photographer together with few others (all of us are just volunteers and not paid). Who owns the rights to the images?
The event organizer or us, the photographers?
For me, it's simple. I know some of the rest there who don't like their pictures to be made pubilc and I will scan through my pictures to make sure that I will not accidentally load their pictures online although so far I was not told by anyone to delete my pictures.
There is another photographer that we specifically informed not to post up pictures of certain people. He did not acknowledge and carried on to do so. When he was asked to remove the pictures, he brushed it off by claiming that no names were mentioned. Is that right? He also claimed that the event organizer owns the rights to the images which I'm puzzled since we are not paid to do the job, shouldn't us as volunteer photographers own the rights to the pictures?
By the way, the event was open to public.
I do hope that this can turn out to be a meaningful discussion.
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