I decided to try a few lawyers that
I know before cold calling random lawyers in the Las Vegas area.
There were 4 that I could think of:
·
Beth, a lawyer friend that I chat with online on
facebook,
·
Ward, a lawyer at the insurance company I used to
work for. I used to fix his computer as part of my job doing in-house computer
support. The drawback is, it has been awhile since I have seen him and I don’t
even know if he still works at that company or even if he would remember me.
·
Ash, a family friend. But it has been years
since I have heard from him and he was more my brother’s friend than mine.
·
My cousin who is studying for the bar now. She
is not a lawyer yet, but I am assuming she would know some lawyers.
I went online and contacted the
first one, Beth. I got very lucky, she happened to be online at the time. I
explained my homework to her and she immediately agreed to help. I am not sure
what type of lawyer she is but in law school you are required to have a very
broad education and know about all types of law so I think she is a good
choice.
I
plan to ask her legal questions related to photography. For example I would
like to know what are your rights when shooting strangers in public places and
when you do and don’t need model releases and property releases. Another
question would be if you didn’t register your pictures with the copyright
office can you still sue someone for copyright infringement if they use your
image without your permission. Also I had a Russian guy steal the text content
of my website, when I contacted the ISP to have them take it down, they said
they needed a court order and I figured that would cost money so I never
pursued it, there could be some legal questions to ask related to this.
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