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Anonymous
>>105460 This is true.
A little clarification is needed for usage. You can use any photo taken of an event in plain view for editorial purposes without the permission of the property owner. Editorial basically means any use in which the photo isn't being used to sell or endorse something. It would include newspaper, magazine, and online news articles. Copyrighted buildings, logos, symbols, etc, are also free game for editorial use because it's considered "fair use"
Commercial use, which is when your photo will be used to sell or endorse something, requires permission from property owners and any person who is readily identifiable in the photo. Commercial use would include newspaper ads, stock photo or clip art collections, magazine covers (in most circumstances), etc.
Basically, your rights are to take any photo of anything in plain public view. You may sell the photo for editorial use with or without permission, but you need permission for commercial use. Your subjects have the right to be protected from photography in private places (bathrooms, dressing rooms, their own home, etc) and the right to control commercial use of any photo in which they are identifiable. They can't control editorial use and can't control a photo that they're in but in which they aren't identifiable (such as the back of their head, where there is no way to prove that it's really them).
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