Complacency

[Karl Anderson]

James Hong <jhong@xmethods.net> writes:

> Yea, that's been my experience too. The release is just to be conservative,
> but generally speaking, I think as long as you're 18, they can put you on
> tv..

Not necessarily.  The people you see on COPS with their identities
screened are those who didn't sign a release.  I don't know if this is
to protect people in the pre-conviction legal funnel, or because
they'd be making money off of the images and need royalty protection.
But this aspect doesn't really apply, anyway - we've been talking
about information, not media.  The filmers have the information and
can use it, they just can't broadcast it in that form.

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Karl Anderson      kra@monkey.org           http://www.monkey.org/~kra/