[gyanchawdhary]

Wow, you’ve cracked the mystery of photography .. sometimes people take pictures of other people. What’s next, discovering that mirrors reflect more than just yourself and that’s a valid wtf moment in your world view too …

[amelius]

The law has limits on what you can do with your camera and photos. Until now, most people were operating within these limits, so there was no problem. In the modern times of big tech, automation, AI, and large scale photo databases, you simply cannot scale up your simple user's rights without running into the law. And imho, rightly so.

[Avipat_]

lol yea, not sure what that guy is on

[amelius]

Read the rest of the comments in this subthread, then maybe you will understand what this is about.

[Avipat_]

Can't reply to ur other comment but yea, Latham and Watkins represents us. The best lawyers on the planet, so yea we've talked to lawyers about it lol.

[j_w]

That's great. Good thing its explicitly illegal to distribute sexual material of another individual without their consent. But it's completely legal for you to own that material with their consent.

Your blanket claim that you own the rights to commercially distribute all photos that you took is just not true.

[gyanchawdhary]

HN is the UFC of capitalism .. blood, code, sweat and capital. You showed up barefoot with a manifesto about non violence … Wrong arena champ.