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Advertising and Public Photography
As online photography communities grow, so does the potential for conflict between open access (public) photography and the commercial use of images. Photographs are now easily shared, viewed and downloaded by thousands of users on networking sites like Flickr, Facebook and many more… Often images are posted and obtained with little regard or interest in copyright, informed consent and fair use.
A recent incident that highlights the potential for conflict is Virgin Mobile’s use of an image from Flickr for an ad campaign in Australia. The image was posted under the Creative Commons license “public”, which allows the image to be used so long as the source is credited. The user, in this case an ad company only had to credit the source; they were not required to notify the photographer or the subject. The ad campaign is now the subject of a lawsuit, but not by the photographer. The person pictured, unaware of how her likeness was used has filled a lawsuit against the company. However the lawsuit will most likely not focus on how the image was obtained, but rather whether the person was defamed by its use.
You can read more about this and see the original post on Flickr: Dump Your Pen Friend and Virgin Mobile advertising campaign using Flickr photos.
There is also an interesting article from The New York Times - Use My Photo? Not Without Permission by NOAM COHEN.
For additional information about Photography Ethics and Informed Consent, please refer to the Photoshare website. As a Note: While Photoshare images are free to non-profits promoting international health and development; Photoshare images are viewable as watermarked thumbnails and available upon request. Requests are screened to ensure that images are used in a context that fairly represents the real situation, subject identity and physical location of the image. We feel these standards for motioning and maintaining images is equally important to both users and photographers, and is vital to ensuring the integrity of the collection and the protection of human photo subjects.