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Unquestionably Confused wrote:
on 6/3/2005 9:51 AM Robert Bonomi said the following:
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If you take a photograph of MY home and dog, YOU own the rights to that
photographic image as the "artist."


"yahbut" applies. The owner of the items pictured may _also_ have rights
that have to be dealt with. "Smart" photographers get a 'models release'
for anything that they _might_ later want to use commercially.

Does that apply to inanimate objects and non-humans? My decorative
mailbox sitting out on the public right of way? My dog "Spot?"

You think you're being facetious. You're not.

The answer to that question, frequently, is 'yes".

I kid you not when I say that professional photographers *do* get releases
from property (real or personal) owners, for shots they intend to use
commercially.