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Originally Posted by CYF
NO. Ownership/copyright is established by taking the photo. I believe a model release is typically needed for commercial purposes/advertising.
Anywhere you're allowed to be, you can take photographs. You would then own the copyright. You can then post the picture online, your flickr account, even sell copies of the photo. You cannot use the photo in an advertisement without permission.
That's simply not true, and good luck finding a court case to back that up.
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Copyright protects the original work, it doesn't grant rights to logos, trademarks, people, likeness, etc of anything within the picture, simply because someone took it (in some cases it does). Those are unique rights, that have to be granted before the image is used.
with Flickr you're choosing to publish your pictures with your own limitations. Nobody is saying you can't sell/buy or whatever, what you own. But you have to make sure you are not in violation of trademarks, etc, first.
Well, try to sue someone for something you think you own, but you never registered the copyright on it. Like if I make music beats, just like yours, but I created it as well. Or if I shoot a video (my work) with your art work or song in the background, of my kids ballgame then sell that to other parents to pay for costs/time, good luck on that copyright as it's not what is being sold. And yes... to truly be protected, you need to 'actually' copyright it - otherwise you're pissing in the wind.