Do you have the right to portrait abroad?

Portrait right, as a specific personality right, is generally recognized by the international community. Most countries have clear provisions on portrait right in their laws, and China is no exception. Therefore, I would like to introduce some foreign knowledge about portrait right and its related aspects, hoping to help you solve the corresponding problems.

First, do foreign countries have the right to portrait?

Of course, there are also provisions on portrait rights in foreign countries, but the provisions are more or less different from those in China, but they are basically the same.

Second, the right content of portrait right

Portrait owners have exclusive rights to their own portraits. Portrait owners are not only free to dispose of their own portrait rights, but also have the right to prohibit others from using their exclusive portraits without their consent. Specifically, the content of portrait right includes portrait ownership, production right and use right.

Portrait right means that citizens have the right to own their own portraits. Without the permission of a citizen, no one else may own or damage the portrait of the citizen.

Portrait right refers to the right to decide and implement portraits, that is, the right to decide whether and how to make portraits.

Portraits can make their own portraits, such as self-portraits and self-paintings. You can also entrust others to make it, such as a photo studio or studio. If someone takes the initiative to take pictures or make statues for the portrait person, he must obtain the right to make portraits from the portrait person.

The right of portrait in the legal sense includes the personal interests enjoyed by the owner of portrait based on his portrait. Generally has the following legal characteristics:

1. Portrait is an artistic expression of the appearance of a natural person.

Usually, when we judge whether the external image of a character constitutes a portrait, we should look at it in combination with its shape and position.

First of all, characters should have portrait characteristics. First, its manifestation is to reflect the image of a specific citizen through photography; Second, the portrait must also reflect the main characteristics of a specific citizen, such as posture, appearance, expression, etc. Third, the portrait must be true and recognizable, and familiar people can know whose portrait it is at a glance.

Secondly, it must be the fact of a concrete portrait of a citizen. In the picture, the citizen portrait should occupy a prominent position in the whole image and be represented as a specific object, not as a foil; At the same time, the purpose is not to achieve the goal through the use of portraits.

2. Portrait has the property of things.

Portrait is an artistic representation, which should be fixed on a specific material carrier (such as photographic paper, TV screen, newspapers and magazines, etc.). ) specifically and independently. It is an objective visual image derived from and independent of the portrait owner, which can be dominated, controlled and disposed of by people and has certain property interests.

3. Portrait is the object of portrait right, which shows the unique personality interests of natural persons.

The so-called "property interests" do not come from the physical characteristics of natural persons themselves, but from the personality interests generated by portraits, which reflect different needs of personality interests. The legal protection of natural person's portrait right is actually the need to protect personality interests.

The so-called "portrait right" is a kind of personality right exclusive to natural persons. The legal significance is: the inviolable exclusive right of natural persons to copy their images (portraits) on objective material carriers through plastic arts or other forms.

The personal interests of citizens reflected in their portraits are the protection objects of portrait rights in our laws. It includes spiritual interests and property interests based on the personality interests embodied in portraits.

Third, the legal provisions of the right to portrait.

civil law

Article 108 The right of portrait A natural person enjoys the right of portrait and has the right to make, use, make public or permit others to use his own portrait according to law.

Portrait is the external image of a specific natural person that can be recognized on a certain carrier through images, sculptures, paintings, etc.

According to the law, we can know that foreign countries certainly have provisions on portrait rights, but the provisions are more or less different from those in China, but they are basically the same.