rlemert
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I chair the advisory board for the engineering academy (a small "learning community" inside a regular school) at one of our local high schools. We plan of having 'action' pictures of our students on our web site, but the academy's director is concerned about the possible need for model releases.
The way I've been reading the other 'copyright' threads here suggests that this should not be something we need to be concerned about - as long as the pictures are not used commercially and they're not taken where the students would have "a reasonable expectation of privacy." A broader interpretation would even suggest that this would constitute "editorial" use.
I'd appreciate hearing the forum's opinions on the subject.
(For the record, we are contacting local legal help. Second-year law students in North Carolina are apparently authorized to provide "pro bono" legal assistance to non-profit organizations, and we utilized their services to help us with our 501c3 application. I've asked our treasurer to bring this question to them, but I also wanted to get a feel for the general consensus on what we're doing.)
The way I've been reading the other 'copyright' threads here suggests that this should not be something we need to be concerned about - as long as the pictures are not used commercially and they're not taken where the students would have "a reasonable expectation of privacy." A broader interpretation would even suggest that this would constitute "editorial" use.
I'd appreciate hearing the forum's opinions on the subject.
(For the record, we are contacting local legal help. Second-year law students in North Carolina are apparently authorized to provide "pro bono" legal assistance to non-profit organizations, and we utilized their services to help us with our 501c3 application. I've asked our treasurer to bring this question to them, but I also wanted to get a feel for the general consensus on what we're doing.)