The discussion becomes absurd more and more. @Esther. The example with the gardne bench is a good one. Of course you don't have to do the credits when you take a photo in general. But when you out in a garden bench catalogue you better do. Or when you say all done by me you better do it as well. It is not so easy always and there is not only a black or a white. I think as well that you better ask for permission if you sell the photo. But that is a gray zone mostly. Regarding the newspaper thing. There is a very simple rule. As long as you do photos from situations that are "in public interest" you are allowed to do that, you don't have to ask the people. The moment you take private moments you have to get permission. Some yellow press magazines have paid a lot of money to clebraties here in Germany the last years because they as well didn't understood the differences. Again, the difficulty is that it is not always black or white only. That there are a lot of in between moments. Back to the sample scenes. I checked them again. They all say who have created them and says nothing about the copyright situation. That does not mean that you can do whatever you want, that only mean that you better ask first. And you have to ask E-on or the creators, not here in a public forum. This here is only an intelectual game and has no real meaning to the issue. It is a perfect theme for the E-on registered forum i would think. Oh, regarding the lawyers. I don't like some of them as well. But i would love to hear from the big haters again when someone touches their ground - physically or mentally and they need to fight for their rights. I had that case - clients that didn't wanted to pay invoices and without a lawyer i probably would have been bancrupt a long time ago.

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