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Selling NY Yankee Photos on eBay

JustinJustin Posts: 183
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I take some awesome photos at Yankee stadium as I have a great digital camera with a telephoto lens. Is it illegal to sell the photos? Does it violate any MLB laws?

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  • BigKidAtHeartBigKidAtHeart Posts: 1,799 ✭✭
    I am not sure but send an email here to get a quick answer!

    GSteinbrenner@NewYorkYankees.com

    or you can try,

    Bud.Selig@mlb.com

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  • JustinJustin Posts: 183
    Very funny.
  • kuhlmannkuhlmann Posts: 3,326 ✭✭
    Yes it is against the law to resell the photo's. If your that good and find an investor than you can become rich!! you have to pay for the licesing to sell the photo's.
    On Ebay though i think you can sell all your photo's.
  • NewbietoPSANewbietoPSA Posts: 129 ✭
    It's not illegal, they are his photos. If someone else owned the photos and he sold them it would be illegal.
  • NewbietoPSANewbietoPSA Posts: 129 ✭


    << <i>I am not sure but send an email here to get a quick answer!

    GSteinbrenner@NewYorkYankees.com

    or you can try,

    Bud.Selig@mlb.com >>




    Is that really his email?
  • habs71habs71 Posts: 321
    The law says the "author" is the owner of the copyright. The author of a photo or image is usually the person who snapped the shutter or created the image. If you took the photo, you own the copyright.

    If the photo are as good as you say they are, you then want to protect yourself against others copying and selling your photos..so you may want to put something like this on the back of them....



    << <i>Copying these photographs, or portions thereof, is a copyright infringement and is expressly forbidden. >>



    Along with your name and date of photograph.

    And you can use the "poor man's copyright"....mail to yourself, via reigistered mail, a copy of all the photos, with a letter giving all the details of the pics.....do not open the envelope when you receive it....put it in a safe spot. Wait until you have it safely in hand before listing your photos on eBay.




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  • NewbietoPSANewbietoPSA Posts: 129 ✭
    whoever owns the negative is the owner.
  • goodriddance189goodriddance189 Posts: 2,388 ✭✭


    << <i>I take some awesome photos at Yankee stadium as I have a great digital camera with a telephoto lens. Is it illegal to sell the photos? Does it violate any MLB laws? >>



    no.
  • SpigrimaceSpigrimace Posts: 134
    I'm no lawyer but:

    1) read the back of the ticket stub of the Terms and Conditions that says (coincidentally from an actual Yankees stub): "you agree that you will not transmit or aid in transmitting any description, account, picture or reproduction of the baseball game or event to which this ticket grants admission." My guess is you can be disgorged of your revenue, would receive a cease and desist letter, and photos/negatives subject to seizure. I don't think if you made $50 selling 10 photos on eBay they'd bother you though.

    2) However, you better watch the "Right to privacy" statutes as well as they do stipulate using someone's image or likeness without consent is a no-no and can lead to you paying punitive damages. Say you caught Jeter in the clubhgouse with his pants down. You sell those, you are screwed bigtime and will be declaring bankruptcy for the millions of the court's judgment levied upon you.
  • NewbietoPSANewbietoPSA Posts: 129 ✭
    If that's true with the private moment photos then the enquirer would have been bankrupt years ago. There is a loop hole to almost every law.
  • BigKidAtHeartBigKidAtHeart Posts: 1,799 ✭✭


    << <i>If that's true with the private moment photos then the enquirer would have been bankrupt years ago. There is a loop hole to almost every law. >>

    it all has to do with "expectation of privacy"

    If you shoot someone on the beach,
    on the deck of a yaht, on the street, etc.
    then they have no real expectation that
    their in a private moment.

    If however you shoot them through their
    window, through a crack in their curtains...
    or bust in on them in the bathroom, etc.
    then there IS a resonable expectation of privacy.

    MOST of the photos that tabloids use are shot
    in public, (they might just be far far away and
    catch an unsuspecting subject)
    and the Enquirer may in fact use a few of
    these private moment photos, but very few, and they
    usually get sued over them. (and often lose)
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  • NewbietoPSANewbietoPSA Posts: 129 ✭
    That's true bik kid, but is Yankee Stadium considered a private moment because you have to pay to get in? What if you take a picture with a telephot lens of the 4 train at the little opening, or from the roof tops of the buildings across the street. If they are not considered private moments, then the pictures should be sellable.
  • downgoesfrazierdowngoesfrazier Posts: 1,515 ✭✭
    Enough already!...Let's see some damn photos!!!

    dgf
  • TheCARDKidTheCARDKid Posts: 1,496 ✭
    When you enter Yankee stadium, you are bound by a contract (i.e. a Ticket). You can't video tape the game and sell it to your friends. And the same would go for pictures. Selling a few photos wouldn't get the FEDS after you, but why risk it.

    If you photographed a game from a public place, i.e. a street corner (or the homes across from Wrigley Field), I wonder what the law would say then. Is it still a private moment?
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