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They can try the standover approach (as above) but it's pure bluff.
Would they prefer you tagged companies that produce lime?
J.Cochrane
Media from the event is valuable, it's in Feld's interest to protect their professionals who have invested in them.
If photog "John" is giving company freebies, then photog "Joe" just lost a client and a paycheck.
If anything this is good for feld. People tagging companies makes feld’s advertising even more valuable and seen by even more people than just tv/stream viewers would have.
Thats an even stronger selling point for advertising with Feld when your logo will also appear in thousands of photos along with tv and the stream...
The Shop
A professional photographer can of course control the image, but even with that, unless Feld has these guys signing away some rights regarding their photography, they sure as hell can't stop them from tagging people/companies.
The guy that should chime in is the dude that is from NorCal that actually is an attorney and a really excellent photographer... His handle escapes me at the moment I know his name is Michael. Excellent, excellent photographer.
If I recall correctly, basically there's something on the admission ticket that says that Feldowns all IP rights... Something like that.
I also saw feld threatened that Husky team Carson Brown is on’s film guy from filming the track from the stands and posting the footage to his vlogs on youtube. Yet literally every one else does this... because youre allowed to. When he said that I was like woooow u shoulda told em to screw. Sounds like theyre overstepping their bounds to see who listens and ppl get scared and just comply which helps feld. Everyone that believes them is 1 less person.
The thing is posting amateur pics/videos of the ads around the track actually makes Felds ad space MORE valuable because thats thousands more pics/vids of exposure for the companies vs just tv or streams. Feld is wrong in that they have no authority over this and theyre wrong thinking it hurts them when these companies are getting even more exposure from paying feld to advertise around the track making felds ad slots MORE valuable. You can sell those ad slots as with the potential to be on tv, in streams, and in thousands of amateur pics and vids when you buy advertising around the track...
Companies that do this shit crack me up.
Pit Row
Shit, I wouldn't need Feld to tell me that.
To be very, very clear here - I am NOT sticking up for Feld!
I wonder if what Feld is tripping on is that companies not paying a sponsor fee to Feld are getting exposure through SX images (akin to the teams not being allowed to sell in the pits, if still the case).
Some general background: A photographer, like any creative, has a common law copyright in his or her works on creation (typically the work would have to be registered under the Copyright act for the photographer to have the Act's remedies). That said, if the subject is a notable person, say an athlete, and the value of the image relates to that person, that person has the right to control their image that supersedes the photographer's right to sell that person's image outside of an editorial context. These rights and limitations usually get bundled up in the various parties' credentials such that the creative work is advancing everyone's interests. My own personal experience has been that the restrictions don't get hammered if someone is posting on a web board or social media, but the gloves come off when someone starts selling images outside of the credential framework, like ebay posters.
I've done it occasionally on instagram, but largely dated old pics and its unlikely I'll be shooting races any more (it's become too physically hard for me). I hadn't thought if posting to instagram and tagging the companies is as scabby as giving photos for free to those companies and undercutting the pros. There are really good pro shooters who no longer invest as much in pro MX/SX in part because of how digital photography facilitated a flood of images "good enough" for some companies, especially if the prices is right at free.
What's a bit crazy is that the half life value for 99.9% of moto photos is about 12 hours now with the speed clients demand photos, and really the big players are going to 10 or so guys who are at every race reliably delivering work product on the schedule demanded by clients now. If as a amateur you publish stuff to the internet it's largely valueless commercially by the time you manage that unless it's a really one-off iconic money shot.
Unless the ticket expressly forbids his posting of said images on his personal website, how can Feld even pretend to have any ability to stop him? Furthermore, if he wants to tag companies in his post, either out of deference or obligation, how is that any business of Feld's? The photographer was there as a "private citizen," not as a paid professional.
I get they want to protect their rights and the credentialed photog's but this seems excessive and maybe not legal too.
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