AboutMark Gluckman Expertise I can answer questions about all social photography (wedding, corporate, b`nai mitzvah). All general questions about digital photography and, of course, film.
Photojournalistic and travel photo questions can also be asked as that is another specialty of mine.
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Past/Present clients McDonald's, Sprint, GE, Ford, NBC, IBM, Princess Cruises, NCL and I work the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon every year.
I have worked for The New York Times, USA Today, AP and dozens of other international and national publications.
I have shot hundreds of weddings, b'nai mitzvah and corporate social events.
Expert: Mark Gluckman Date: 5/18/2006 Subject: Legal use of photo images
Question I am designing a brochure for a festival in our town. I took pictures at the festival last year and would like to use these photographs, specifically a boy on his dad's shoulders watching the parade. I am the photographer. Do I need to get a legal release to use these peoples' images on the brochure? Thanks.
Answer Legally yes. However, if you took last year's photos at a public festival, and are using those photos for the same festival this year there probably will not be any problems. If however, you wanted to use that photo to advertise a product sold at the festival, you'd be walking a thin ice.
If it is a public festival (not for profit), local and sponsored by a charity or city agency, I would not worry about it. No one is profiting from the use of the photos. I do things like this all the time and rarely get releases. I shoot lots of non-profit fundraisers, then the photos are used at a later date for another fundraiser. In 15 years of doing this I've never had a problem.
I don't think you'll be doing 10-20 in the state prison for this.
