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Anyone familiar with online photo copyright laws? Use other people photos of myself?
I am a performer and am putting together a website. I have found many photos, videos, and articles about myself online. Can I use other people's photos of myself for my own site? Some of them are from major news publications, would I have to get permission, even though they are of me? I would of course give credit and provide a link to the original article, but should I still contact them? Is there a chance that I am only allowed to use a link and not the actual photo/video itself?
2 Answers
- Nuff SedLv 77 years agoFavourite answer
The copyright owners get to decide who, when, where and how their works are distributed. You are not the copyright owner of those images. Many photographers and producers do allow a "courtesy" copy for private use by the subject of a photograph or video, but you would have to negotiate what it will cost to permit you to distribute unlimited free copies to anyone who wants one (i.e., posting on the web).
- ?Lv 77 years ago
Yes
You would need to pay the people who took and own that photo money to use it, no different than if you had hired such a person to take photos in the first place.
Merely being in a photograph does not give you a right to use that photograph.
Merely acknowledging someone else took the photo, doesn't make it OK to steal that person's photo and use it.
Links are free, photos and videos are not.
