The legal term that protects ownership of creative works and restrictions as to how those works may be used by others.
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Licensing for wedding photos, to protect photographer, but allow freedom to clients?
We're looking at booking a professional photographer for our wedding, but I am a little unhappy with assigning complete control of photos from our own wedding to a photographer.
The contract she ...
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I just saw my children in a photograph on the wall of a chain restaurant. What rights do I have to protect their image?
A friend alerted me she saw my children in a photograph hung in a chain restaurant. Although the picture was taken at a public event, I never gave permission for anyone to sell the image of my ...
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Is this type of photo manipulation still violating copyright law?
I am a photo student and I am doing a photo series on contemporary art. I plan to take pictures of contemporary art from printed books (photo of a published photo of an art work). And I will be ...
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Copyright Was Released to All Images: Does this include all RAW photos?
In our wedding photographer's contract it states that she includes the "Copyright RELEASE to ALL Images" and does not specify to only the edited images. Do we have the right to demand the RAW image ...
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Does photograph copyright ownership belong to the person who “just” pressed the shutter-button?
In a situation where Person A has a photograph idea/concept, an auto-portrait for example, sets up the scene, lighting, and instructs Person B how to compose the photograph, which leaves the Person B ...
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Can information like a signature, secret key or password be encoded in a photo?
I want to protect copyright of my photographs. So, I've decided I'd like to put some signature like information in my photos.
According to my research,
- I have copyright as default and I don't ...
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Still-life reconstruction considered plagiarism?
I am really bad at still lifes. That is, I never even attempted making one. So I decided to try and make a photo of freshly baked bread. I stumbled across a few amazing shots on the Internet which I ...
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How do I make sure I keep rights to photos I take for a band?
Recently, a friend of mine asked if I could photograph his band to use as promotional material along with their newly-recorded album. They want to use the image(s) to send to record companies, put on ...
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What licences allow commercial use but not distribution?
I have taken some photos and I want to allow free commercial use but not allow re-distribution. More specifically what I want to do is to allow people to use them on their own ( commercial or ...
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Who owns the copyright of a picture taken of my construction work?
Here's the scenario:
I work for a company that does some home improvement work.
An architect designed the house, we did the work. I found pictures of that work online, contacted the architect and ...
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Can someone take a picture of me, then claim copyright over the material? [duplicate]
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If someone makes a picture of me, who owns the right to it?
A lady took a photograph of me, then posted it in a smear campaign against me. I was the obvious subject of ...
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Can old photos be used in a self-published memoir without permission?
I am helping an older person self-publish her memoir. She has photos of students in plays that she produced in a school setting some 30 plus years ago. She cannot now track down these people to get ...
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In Connecticut, do employees have rights to photographs of themselves?
In Connecticut specifically, if an employer hires a company to take photographs of their employees (headshots with nothing in the background that may be considered company property), do the employees ...
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Is modifying an animal photo for use as an avatar icon within fair use?
I found an animal photo I'd like to use as an avatar. I only want to use the head of the animal and would retouch it a bit.
Is this considered as fair use?
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Is it a printer's responsibility to determine copyright?
I have run an "on the side" mail-order high-end photo printing business for a couple of years now, and have printed all sorts. I have considered this before and have drawn up my own conclusions, and I ...
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What are the laws in the United States concerning photo printing copyrights?
My wife and I wanted to save money as we were preparing to get married a few weeks ago, so we had my sister take our engagement photos with my Canon EOS 7D. She's not exactly a professional ...
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What kind of signed statement or writing do I need from a model to own a license on the photo?
I would like to take photos of strangers out in public, but I'm worried that I might get in trouble if I use the image (even non-commercially) in any way - like posting online in a blog.
I've heard ...
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Which is the best batch image watermarking software?
I have lots of images to be watermarked. Is there a good batch image watermarking application that can do the job quickly and easily. I have found some, but none of these have a professional touch.
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If someone makes a picture of me, who owns the right to it?
Say, someone snaps a picture of me. Do I own the rights to it? Or is it the photographer?
EDIT I apologize for being vague in my original question. My intent was to find out for U.S. but a plethora ...
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Image use guidelines that seem to completely contradict themselves
I have a set of image usage guidelines as follows:
USAGE OF AIRBUS IMAGES Digital images in high-resolution format may be
downloaded from the Airbus Photo Gallery site. Obtaining any other
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Can I use an image of someone else's displayed-in-public branding without special permission?
I am currently re-designing a website for a large company that makes parts for planes, and want to use some images of the planes that the parts are made for.
I have some great imagery taken by one of ...
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Do photographers commonly use watermarks? [duplicate]
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Is watermarking worth it?
Are you concerned about image copy protection being a photographer or website owner? Are you interested in image watermarking software? If so ...
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Does offering an embed feature violate copyright law?
I know this is not a legal site, but this is closely related to photography so I hope this question can stay here. I am the owner and founder of a wildlife photo site, which I'll only plug here ...
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PSE10 Insert Invisible Watermark
I need to put an invisible watermark in some of my PSE10 edited PNG files, but since I am an amateur, I probably don't need an online subscription right now. How do I easily put an invisible ...
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JPEG XR Plugin for Photoshop Elements 10?
I think I took a neat picture of a butterfly that I just used PSE10 to cut out of its background. Now, I want to package the butterfly as "free" clipart using appropriate tags to preserve my ...
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A Marketing Firm wants to buy non-exclusive rights for one of my photos, what should I charge?
I was contacted by a marketing firm in Canada requesting that I give them a quote for non-exclusive rights to one of my photos. The the firm does marketing for the company that makes exterior ...
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Can I “lock” copyright metadata in an image?
I'm going to be distributing some of my images as TIFF files and want to put my copyright and contact information into the metadata for the images in a way that prevents it being stripped or altered ...
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How can I determine if I can use a photo commercially?
Hold on for a second, I know that this is not the perfect place to ask but i dont have any other choice. I was searching for a picture for my project, an iphone app which i'm planning to sell upon ...
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How can photographers protect themselves from being sued?
Le Corbusier have just successfully (which means they won) sued Getty images for selling stock photos that contained furniture they created. In response Getty has requested of all its users that they ...
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Is this scenario considered copyright infringement?
I was taking some photos at a public market over the weekend. For my last photo, I stopped to make an image of a few vendors and the amazing neon light around their booths. One of the vendors was a ...
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How can I tag or mark scanned photos to show they are mine?
I have scanned some photos of mine from prints, and I would like to mark them with some indication that I took them. Is there a recognised way of tagging photos that might survive some basic post ...
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How to prevent commercial use of a photo?
I got a request from a guy who'd like to use this image of mine for a print. I am normally open to non-commercial (simple attribution is okay) usage of my photos. So, I wrote "Drop me a flickr mail or ...
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How do I get rights to pictures someone has taken of me?
A photographer friend has agreed to take some sexy pictures of me. I trust him, but I don't want them to somehow wind up all over the internet.
How do we transfer rights of the photos to me?
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Can I legitimately create derivative works from re-blogged source material?
I've searched around without finding exactly the right answer--and I already know no answer here speaks for the final-say, legally. I'm just looking for general rules of thumb pertaining to my ...
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Can I give a company a two-year license to product images, in the U.K.?
I am shooting products for a company. I wanted to know how I can give them just a two-year right over my images to be shown in the catalogue. Is this possible? Does this come automatically with ...
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Do I need to copyright or license my photos to sell as cards?
I would like to sell my pictures as cards. Do I have to get my photos licensed, or is it better to copyright everything to the fullest extent? I don't want to give up any of my rights to the photos.
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Which rights to photographs should I retain when writing a contract?
The title says it all, but to clarify, assuming that the client does not have a specific contract that I must sigh or specific clauses that they want added, what rights to the photographs that I take ...
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In Canada, who owns the copyright to a photograph that has been taken by a hired photographer?
According to The Canadian Copyright Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-42)
Section 10.2.a states:
(2) The person who
(a) was the owner of the initial negative or other plate at the time when that ...
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What should one be aware of when taking pictures at work, but not as one's primary role?
I took a few pictures around work and they were used on our website (more here). I've just been asked to do some shots of the executives, and it looks like there may be more requests like this. Any ...
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Is it legal for me to sell a photo taken from within a store without the store's permission?
I shot some photos of a store's interior for a blog that was highlighting that particular store. Is it legal for me to sell prints of the interior of that store? The photo just includes chocolate in a ...
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Where can I host my pictures for free without giving up rights?
I want to host some pictures at low cost (less than flickr). I have come across Shareapic and Imgur. However, imagur strips the meta-data off of uploaded images, and I couldn't find much information ...
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What is the philosophical justification generally accepted by photographers on why they should be able to profit privately over public property?
Say someone takes a picture of Lord Nelson's statue in Trafalgar Square at dusk, and sells on his website for profit. Is it not arguable that people would not buy it if it weren't a statue of a ...
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Why do event organisers have the right to restrict the activities of photographers?
Many public events such as sports, concerts, etc have restrictive policies that limit the ability of the audience to take photographs. These policies can vary from an outright ban to a ban on the use ...
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I want exclusivity of my photography [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I copyright my photographs?
I am a freelance photographer who wants to know how to claim ownwership of my photos..i.e: i have a portfolio of nature scenes if ...
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Celebrity photographies copyrights
I'm creating a international portal about celebrities.
Where from can I get photos of celebrities without breaking copyright law?
Is there a difference between publishing a photo of celebrity and ...
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How do you detect when your photos are used without copyright permission?
How can you tell when your images are being used without your consent?
In other words, How can you find your images being used in the real world?
I imagine the most prolific medium using images ...
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Should I be worried about ownership of photos taken on my camera by others?
If you are at a social event, such as a party, and someone wants borrows your camera to take a couple of photos (which will typically be of the photographer!), are you concerned about copyright ...
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How do I copyright my photographs?
What exactly, if anything, do I need to do in order to copyright my photographs?
I have done some research into this topic and find a wide range of answers. Some articles on the web are stating that ...
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Is it legal to use images found on the internet?
I realise that I am unable to just use an image willy nilly from the internet, but if an image is uploaded to a site like deviant art, am I able to use it on my site (not claiming it as my own, but as ...
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What are the copyright issues when selling photos of public art?
I know that it is illegal to take a photo of another photo, but does anybody know what the legal situation of selling a photo that includes a sculpture that it is in a public place?
Something like:
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