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As a general rule, if it is a newsworthy event and you are working for a
news organization, you can take a picture/video in which a public figure
is
recognizable and use it in a news broadcast or article (newspaper or
newsmagazine), then you are covered. (I'm speaking of the US only here,
I
don't know the rules outside the country.) The ruling here is that a
public
figure gives up a lot of privacy rights when they decided to "go
public." A
public figure can be a politician, an entertainer, a corporate leader,
virtually anyone who has decided they want to be in the publics eye.
Private
folks, like your next door neighbor, or the couple in the park, are
something altogether different. YOU better get a release to keep your
rear
protected, because if you don't you will get bitten. (You can find
templates
for releases by Googling.)
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Exactly where is the dividing line between private citizens and public
figures. Do you become a public figure as soon as you do anything that's
meant to be seen by the general public?
For example, I consider myself a private citizen, but for awhile, back
in the 1990s, I did a kind of street musician thing in front of the
Philadelphia Museum of Art. (Not on my own, mind you. I was a sidekick
to someone else.) Did that make me a public figure? If it did, am I
still a public figure, since I haven't done it for a long time?
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