As if you needed one, another reason to dislike Robbie Williams …
German Newspaper Puts Photography Boycott On Robbie Williams
On this place we wanted to print a picture of the Robbie Williams´concert. But we had to refuse to do so. The singer´s management wanted to constrain the photopraphers´ work by an adhesion contract which is unacceptable to us. The local chapter of the German Association of Journalist in Saxony called the restrictions a “flagrant example of an immoral contract” and appealed for a photo boycott. The Dresdner Neue Nachrichten follows to this appeal and will only publish a review in the edition of July 12, 2006.”
The contract which is given to photographers rules that all photographs are property of Robbie Williams and almost all copyright and authors rights are conceded to him, so there is practically not much use left.
OK, I was kidding (a bit) with that first line, it is probably over-protective management, record company and/or legal team at work here. It does raise an interesting issue though, who should own the rights to your own face? The raw material is yours but the “art” or intellectual property is the photographers …
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copyright is one thing, i think its getting around that fact that judges say photos of celebrities are news and thus can be used without the permission of the artist.
I did hear somewhere though that William Shatners face was copyright to the star trek owners.