I was happy to share my Hawaii vacation pictures under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, but it occurred to me that I may not have the legal right to do so for several of them.
Three were taken by my wife, but I’m pretty sure she’ll go along with me on the licensing choice.
Two of the pictures I placed online were of my wife and me together, and these were taken by random bystanders. Since I neglected to bring copyright assignment forms to be filled out and signed in triplicate, I think that means the copyright belongs to those unknown — and by now almost thoroughly unknowable — people.
Since they agreed to take the pictures, it seems safe to suppose that they consented for them to be captured to the memory card on the camera, but I don’t know if we can assume they would give permission for me to copy them to my hard drive, to CD, and …
