How on earth is this legal? First, taking a photo of someone in public and monetising it without their knowledge, and second using that photo in a political message the subject doesn’t agree with at all.
Absolutely bizarre.
How on earth is this legal? First, taking a photo of someone in public and monetising it without their knowledge, and second using that photo in a political message the subject doesn’t agree with at all.
Absolutely bizarre.
Disagree.
The “fair to use” comment shows they know there are rules around this stuff. Anyone in advertising knows about image rights.
I’m assuming that they were hoping the person in the image wouldn’t notice/care.
She should take HP to court for defamation; it is clearly implying that she endorses their position.
It is less clear about the role of the photographer here; you or your image are not protected when you are in a public place. But that doesn’t give blanket rights to photographers when you are out and about; taking the image is fine, selling it is not. But iStock and Shutterstock not being under NZ jurisdiction complicate this significantly.
There are Wikimedia guidelines here, the table just says no to commercial use without clarifying (the part about NZ further down also doesn’t clarify): https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Country_specific_consent_requirements
I am guessing there is some editorial allowance here, otherwise a freelance photographer couldn’t be paid by a newspaper. So I’m thinking the photographer selling it for editorial use on stock image sites may not actually break any rules, though I have failed to find those rules.
I did find this from the Police:
https://www.police.govt.nz/faq/what-are-rules-around-taking-photos-or-filming-public-place?nondesktop