Copyright
I would like to know what the legalities
are regarding the use of a celebrities
image in the design of web sets for web
sites. Is it legal to state on the web set
page that the fee being charged is not
for the graphics themselves but for the
time it took to create them?
Re: Copyright
These guys are right, you can't cover yourself that way. If you can find a way to do it, you might produce the set with a way for the customer to drop in a celebrity. But you can't prepare the drop in; you'd have to make it so the customer can do it with an image they find on their own. That is the closest you can come to doing what you want, and even then someone might sue you for facilitating the customers' actions resulting in copyright infringement. So make sure you inform the customer in writing that they must get permission from the proper party if they wish to drop in a celebrity. My firm is focused on Internet, media and entertainment law. By the way, my company at TROANN.com is looking for web designers/webmasters to certify for reliability and list on the site, if you or someone you know is interested.
Re: Copyright
These guys are right, you can't cover yourself that way. If you can find a way to do it, you might produce the set with a way for the customer to drop in a celebrity. But you can't prepare the drop in; you'd have to make it so the customer can do it with an image they find on their own. That is the closest you can come to doing what you want, and even then someone might sue you for facilitating the customers' actions resulting in copyright infringement. So make sure you inform the customer in writing that they must get permission from the proper party if they wish to drop in a celebrity. My firm is focused on Internet, media and entertainment law. By the way, my company at TROANN.com is looking for web designers/webmasters to certify for reliability and list on the site, if you or someone you know is interested.
Re: Copyright
These guys are right, you can't cover yourself that way. If you can find a way to do it, you might produce the set with a way for the customer to drop in a celebrity. But you can't prepare the drop in; you'd have to make it so the customer can do it with an image they find on their own. That is the closest you can come to doing what you want, and even then someone might sue you for facilitating the customers' actions resulting in copyright infringement. So make sure you inform the customer in writing that they must get permission from the proper party if they wish to drop in a celebrity. My firm is focused on Internet, media and entertainment law. By the way, my company at TROANN.com is looking for web designers/webmasters to certify for reliability and list on the site, if you or someone you know is interested.
