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This is kinda a legal question. Who retains the rights to a skiers image when used in movies and pics; the skier, the photographer/videographer or the film company ? To use an example: T-wall hits a rail, Freedle Coty films it with his camera, and it is for a segment in Berman's movie.
I would assume it was Berman but i keep seeing various Pros 08/09 segments which feature alot of shots from major movie companies(Rage, TGR, Level 1 etc..) and there Videographer edits out there too. Does that mean that they have to get permission from those companies to use the clips, or can they just use them when ever and how ever they want.
Obviously this does not apply to smaller film companies but i am guessing the bigger guns of the industry take this shit pretty seriously. WME lawsuit against Level 1, while not directly related to the question, is a good example of how quickly companies react to infringement on what they view as "their property"
