May 26th, 2009 by Rasmus | 5 Comments
This is part 2 (of 2) of an interview with Seattle based lawyer, Venkat Balasubramani, who works with social media, rights, technology and more. We are talking about photography and law, licenses, rights and releases. Don’t forget to check out the first part of this interview.
Why are model and property releases important, and should photographers [...]
May 22nd, 2009 by Rasmus | 1 Comment
Meet Venkat Balasubramani, a Seattle based lawyer who deals in social media, technology, photography and more. He was nice enough to let me ask him a few questions about copyright, licensing and all that stuff that leaves the rest of us with a big question mark floating above our heads. And he didn’t even bill [...]
January 17th, 2009 by Rasmus | 1 Comment
Via Powazek, I read that they’ve finally tracked down the photographer who took the picture for the now iconic Obama poster. It’s a funny story, because it turns out that the guy who took the picture, Jim Young, had been following Barack Obama around on his campaign, seeing his own work used over and over, [...]