Legal Question in Entertainment Law in Massachusetts

I took a pic of a large dog sitting in a car in a parking lot. Can I legalling submit it to the "Ellen" show under the category "cute pets?" I do not have the ownwrs permission. Do I need it?

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Asked on 7/26/11, 6:45 am

1 Answer from Attorneys

Jonas Jacobson Law Offices of Jonas Jacobson

If you took the photograph, you have the copyright in the photograph. There is not, to my knowledge, any copyright in a dog. If you violated someone's reasonable expectation of privacy, that could be an issue. But it sounds like, in this case, the dog was in a parking lot where there was no reasonable expectation of privacy.

Jonas Jacobson

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Answered on 9/20/11, 8:24 am


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