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Who Owns Rights to Event Photos Taken By Volunteer for Nonprofit?

Who Owns Rights to Event Photos Taken By Volunteer for Nonprofit?

Who Owns Rights to Event Photos Taken By Volunteer for Nonprofit?

Court says pictures are owned by photographer and are not ‘works for hire’ controlled by group
The Military Sexual Trauma Movement was formed in 2018 as a 501(c)(4) organization to help survivors of military sexual trauma and other discrimination. Its leadership was all volunteers and it had no paid employees. In September, 2019, it planned several days of demonstrations and activities in Washington, D.C. to promote its agenda. At one unplanned event outside the home of the Commandant of the Marine Corps, the founder of the group made some comments that some other members considered so “abusive and confrontational” that the other members resigned from the group. They simultaneously withdrew their consent for the group to use their names and any photos of themselves “in any fashion”...

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