I feel your pain, but I'm not getting canned.

[ottid]

I once wanted a promotional slide turned into an 8x10 photograph, so I took it into the photo place and asked if it would be allowed, for you to do that. He said as long as I owned the slide, I could have it altered like that. I dropped it off and left.

One hour later I came back and they were asking to see the release form from the creator. Head, counter. That's why I asked if it was allowed. I signed a release, but to this day I wonder if MGM/UA is going to knock down my door and take my photo away.

IANAL But as far as I am aware promotional things are under separate copyright, pretty much they aren't. The idea of them is to promote the product, so as long as it isn't putting the studio/artist whoever in disrepute it is allowed (hence the reason why when people do movie reviews on TV they can only show you parts from the trailer )

[casey13]

I'd ask for a letter from the photographer. The permissions I've seen are usually on the back of the DVD/CD case or more commonly in a form of a letter. At Walmart, they did have a paper you could sign to say that you took them yourself or you could print them. Basically, it was so if the photographer came after us we could pull the letter and say that it was your fault.

One guy thought it was amusing because he was a professional photographer and he never thought he would be questioned about his own personal, family photos. He didn't complain because he had to print up letters expressing permission before.

[Can I Help Your A$$?]

Digital cameras are KILLING the photography industry!

Just like home sewing killed the fashion industry and home taping killed the music industry.

Sorry. Had to.

[BookstoreEscapee]

For me, they usually end up meaning, "You can't have anything you want because we don't want to sell it to you, but we'll arrest you if you get your hands on a copy. Mua ha ha ha ha!"

Eh, they wouldn't have you arrested. Just sue you. Which might be worse.