Posted by Judy Weiser, R.Psych., A.T.R.
on 6/30/2011, 1:36 pm, in reply to "Re: ( client-made videos from still image combining)"
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Leslie, I'm glad you found that other discussion -- I was just about to suggest it, in my reply!
You are correct, the world is changing and the paradigm of how photos are perceived and used, has shifted massively with both the newer technologies, and the social-networking populations who use them in very different ways, with very different understandings about their meaning (and about what "ownership" means!).
I was just recently writing about this (in more detail than here) for a Chapter I'm just finishing, where I discuss my thoughts about "the future of PhotoTherapy and Therapeutic Photography"...
If you want to contact me in about a month, when it is finished, I'd be happy to share additional thoughts with you as a professional using photos in therapeutic interactions ( and also as a professional photographer who is VERY strong about my own intellectual property rights and copyrights!!)
ALSO IMPORTANT... I have just realized that when I re-titled this topic thread on this Discussion page, I titled your concept incorrectly: In describing what you are doing, you are clear that you are making these videos (and thus choosing the images) -- while I originally thought that the clients where choosing them and making all editorial decisions...
And that is a BIG difference to me, therapeutically...
"your" way, it is like having clients work with the "Photo-Projective" technique of PhotoTherapy, working with "images-provided-by-the-therapist" -- and thus selected through the eyes (filters) of the therapist (i.e., not originally selected by the client)
whereas the way that *I* thought you were doing this (having THEM pick the images and work actively with them, to create the video), is more like the PhotoTherapy Technique of "Photos By the Client" ("by" meaning either taken by them with their camera, or appropriated by them in re-using "found" imagery...
LASTLY, regarding your concern with issues of rights and intellectual property / image-ownership issues (and permissions), you can very easily solve this by using images selected (by you or by the client) from "stock photos" websites such as www.istockphoto.com/ -- where you can simply (and legally) take and then reuse photos from the website without having to worry about any problems in doing this, as that is their purpose. Most are able to be taken and re-used for free; others for a small fee...
Hope all this helps,
Judy
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