You can certainly say in advance that you grant permission on all photos, but if any claim of copyright violation was made later on Matt would need to prove that it was expressly given. I honestly have no idea if a comment in a forum would legally count as written permission.If somebody said "we're taking a shot for the BM advert in Bike magazine, everybody pose", then everybody in that shot would know what it was for, and anybody else there could vouch that it was posed for knowingly. Plus you can take pictures of complete strangers in public places as much as you like provided they're just for you. But if you take it implying that it's a personal snap and then use it commercially you could be sued. If there are any children in the shot then don't even think about it.EDIT: Just to clarify, it's not directly illegal to use the photos, the police won't come calling, but without written consent you're opening yourself up to be sued for a wide variety of reasons. That's why professionals get their models to sign waivers.
JP - it's ur pics that aren't suitable for print! lol.
GB, so if i went to the motorway bridge as a big protest was passing - thousands of bikers. I take a pic, in a public place, no faces visible (helmets)... I must be able to use that!
Two sides to story: I hate having my photo took but make an attempt to join in at events HOWEVER, if I was then asked if those shots could be used in an advert for the site (which is never likely to happen with photos of me anyway lol), the answer would be a categoric NO.
I tend to agree with GB on this one, although person taking photo has copyright, I don't think that means they can commercially exploit person in that photo without consent.
Blimey, thought I'd lost my legal head!
Yes definitely, if people aren't easily identifiable then there's no problem at all.It's specifically using somebody's face in an advert that's the problem. For one thing you're implying that they endorse the site, but they could say that they don't and then sue you. Then there are people who lie about where they go, printing their photo could drop them in the shit, and then they could sue you for it. (An example of somebody doing this came up in conversation very recently.)
ok so any photo I took can be used. Other photos I want to use I will PM the person who uploaded it and ask for their permission. In future I will put a tick-box next to the upload box that says "i give permission for this photo to be used commercially" which must be ticked.
Ok, now back to the advert. Funny tag lines, visual ideas... anything you've got please. How can we advertise the site? We have 5 days.
oooooh, well nobody will be identifiable i dont think. Photos will be tiny. Its an A4 ad, and will have several group fotos. The fotos will be small and have 20 people in or something. Each face will be a dot in print lol
i might just go down the dating route, it's easy to advertise. All the ads online are about events and socialising.
Plus the dating aspect brings in more people, catches the eye more.
Yeah but think about the dating aspect of all dating sites out there 100% free till you actually wanna date someone then its pull out the credit card and most if not all dating sites do not work. I looked at that first as I am single looking for a female to accompany me on bike rides etc.. browsed some profiles and saw the following. Looking for: Nothing Bike I own: Tell you later No Profiles pics and inactive profiles. Went into the chatroom only to find out that very few people uses it. To be honest the event calendar is the only good point I see. If this was purely a dating site I would not have been here anymore. At the end of the day if you are going to base advertising on dating aspect you are going to have a lot of people sign up and become inactive profiles instead of attracting the people who want to participate in events. Word of mouth and member testimonials are the best form of any advertising.
Last year I signed up for several dating sites, then shortly afterwards cancelled them all apart from this one, I just decided that it isn't actually what I want. The reason I'm still on this one is the social side of it, and that's why you're still getting my money.You may well attract more people initially with the dating aspect, but will you attract more paying customers who stick around? I honestly don't know, but IMHO it's the social side of things that keeps your paying users.
lol love the last line there :-) Keep em coming.
The dating aspect will being in 10x more people than advertising another social site (which i cant find any fotos to use of professional quality). Less will need to stick around cos more will come in the first place.
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