Hi Linda,
I would go for a risk analysis on the photographs.
Chances of the person in the photograph seeing the images
Chances of the person in the photograph not being happy with the image
being publish
Chances of the person in the photograph contacting the gallery to let you
know they're unhappy
Chances of the whole situation getting legal when its just an image of a
person (more than likely to just ask you to take it down)
Chances that publishing them with damage institutions reputation
Against the benefits of publishing them.
You've secured the most important rights so I would say that although
you're still not legally suppose to the risk is low to publish them.
John Peel
Collection Information Officer
Manchester Art Gallery
Mosley Street
M2 3JL
Tel +44(0)161 235 8892
Fax +44(0)161 235 7144
Text +44(0)161 235 8893
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Please can anyone advise on a copyright / data protection question we have
We have copyright permission from the photographer and the newspaper
concerned to publish some photographs that were taken for use in our
local newspaper but what I am worried about is the data protection side
of putting online photos of people who are still alive - the photos vary
in date from 1930s to last year.
So can anyone advise me whether we can put them online or not since we
don't ourselves have signed permissions from the people who feature in
the photographs that we can put them on the web.
Linda Ellis
Project Manager Black Country Collections Online
Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Lichfield Street
Wolverhampton
West Midlands
WV1 1DU
tel. 01902 552 048
fax. 01902 552 053
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