License issue: publishing an image of famous person in the scientific paper
Assuming the photograph is still under copyright, yes.

The copyright owner of the photograph. This will usually be the photographer.

You are probably liable, but they would probably complain directly to the journal who would then shout at you. Under a Creative Commons license, you are still the author and &quot;owner&quot;, even if you have given permission to people to use it under the license.
(I say &quot;probably&quot; - it does occasionally happen that you transfer rights to the publisher, who then release it under a CC license with themselves as the owner, but this is pretty rare.)


Short answer: yes, you do need to get permission, and you can't just say &quot;I found it on the internet and it's the journal's problem for not checking&quot;.