7/8'sIrish opened this issue on Mar 05, 2005 ยท 38 posts
Acadia posted Wed, 09 March 2005 at 2:16 AM
It depends on who it is. If it's a model or actor, then no. They get paid for their image/face/body. However, tabloids and newspapers freely use celebrity images to sell their news papers. Sometimes these tabloids get sued if the articles are meant to assassinate character, but otherwise nothing happens. Also, if it's a political figure, you do not need their permission to use their image. At least in Canada. There was a bunch of ruckass going on where I live about a company who pirated our Mayor's face and put it on a billboard to help sell their product. Because the Mayor is a political public servent, his image was allowed to be used without financial compensation to him. I also have a question about this "Mandy" person. Who is she besides a Poser 3D Celebrity? Is she an actress, movie star, singer?
"It is good to see ourselves as
others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi