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Originally Posted by neilcreek
Update: Another friend, who is on the convention committee says: "the keyword in the clause is 'commercial'. Provided you don't sell or make any profit from the photos, it should be classed as 'personnal' use and that is not covered in the clasues"
That doesn't seem much better to me, I would like to sell prints of these photos to the people in them. But for everyone else, I still think the term can be read as "we can sell your photos". And I think if it can be interpreted that way it COULD be interpreted that way.
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I don't know about in Australia, but in the US 'commercial use' is a narrowly defined term that applies to marketing and advertising. Simply selling or making a profit is not considered commercial use. It sounds to me like what they're saying in the first clause is that only they can use images from the convention for marketing. And in the second, they're saying by attending the convention, you may have your picture taken and used for marketing future conventions. These stipulations seem reasonable to me.