Legal question about sports photography
Sep 18, 2018 12:53:17 #
cyberbo60
Loc: Greentown, Indiana
Let’s say I am at a high school football or basketball game taking pictures. Do I have the legal right to post those pictures on my website with no consent? I want to post pictures on my website but I don’t want to violate any laws if I decide to make a profit from them. Thank you in advance
John
John
Sep 18, 2018 13:13:38 #
cyberbo60 wrote:
Let’s say I am at a high school football or basketball game taking pictures. Do I have the legal right to post those pictures on my website with no consent? I want to post pictures on my website but I don’t want to violate any laws if I decide to make a profit from them. Thank you in advance
John
John
In todays paranoid society, it would probably be safest to have a signed release from the school. The game is open to the public, so I can not imagine getting into any legal trouble with what you want to do, but nowadays one never knows when it comes to posting on a website or making a profit. Better to be safe than sorry.
Sep 18, 2018 13:25:57 #
cyberbo60 wrote:
Let’s say I am at a high school football or basketball game taking pictures. Do I have the legal right to post those pictures on my website with no consent? I want to post pictures on my website but I don’t want to violate any laws if I decide to make a profit from them. Thank you in advance
John
John
John; I am not an attorney, and would not want to provide any advice that might seem 'written in stone.' From past posts, I don't believe taking the photos and posting them on a personal website would land you in trouble. The issue would be if you decided to "make a profit from them." That is where it might become a bit of a slippery slope.
Best wishes. Hopefully, some of UHH's more knowledgeable and experienced member will weigh in on this.
Sep 18, 2018 13:53:00 #
Michael1079 wrote:
... The issue would be if you decided to "make a profit from them." That is where it might become a bit of a slippery slope. ...
Profit is inconsequential.
What matters are privacy and "commercial" use.
Don't distribute photographs that are embarrassing in inappropriate ways. Someone whose cloths get ripped off would be a photo to avoid. Take it, just don't display it.
Commercial use means promoting the sale of another object. You can sell and profit from a photograph, but if a photogragh is used to advertise some other object for sale, for example football helmets, a model release is required.
Sep 18, 2018 15:06:26 #
Sep 19, 2018 16:28:44 #
The answer is "yes", "no", "maybe". Here is an interesting article... https://www.rangefinderonline.com/wedding-portrait/high-school-seniors-sports/legalities-photographing-school-sports/
Sep 20, 2018 23:00:01 #
cyberbo60 wrote:
Let’s say I am at a high school football or basketball game taking pictures. Do I have the legal right to post those pictures on my website with no consent? I want to post pictures on my website but I don’t want to violate any laws if I decide to make a profit from them. Thank you in advance
John
John
You should seek legal advice from an attorney, not an online forum. Any advice you get here cannot be used as a defense when you get sued. Just sayin'
Sep 21, 2018 16:30:04 #
cyberbo60 wrote:
Let’s say I am at a high school football or basketball game taking pictures. Do I have the legal right to post those pictures on my website with no consent? I want to post pictures on my website but I don’t want to violate any laws if I decide to make a profit from them. Thank you in advance
John
John
Aren't any customers you might sell to be the person in the image or their parents?
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