Copyright and Fair Use LR

I would think that taking pictures of people and places and putting them on a web site would not be allowed. Of course if you take a photo of a public place and there are 25-50 people scattered throughout the picture, you are not going to be able to get to everyone to let them know of your project and ask them for permission to post their photo online. However if you take a picture of a store, why not take the time to go in and explain what you are doing and give them a heads up that their photo will be online. That seems the safest way to go about this project, chatting with people as you take the photos, specifically letting them know what you are doing and asking for permission. Simply taking the pictures and walking away, getting home and loading them onto the internet seems too simple and illegal. Here at UMF I have had to sign photo release forms before incase my photo was going to be used on the school website, for example, therefore I would hope that permission should be granted from all of those involved in each picture before being posted on the internet.