Archive for July 6th, 2008
Copyright of Model Releases and Public Shooting
Stumbled across a site that talks about model releases and public shooting and its copyrights. Sometimes it gets scary to run into trouble while being a photographer. We have to know the rights of shooting certain things to prevent our images being taken away. But that means sometimes you’ll have to decide if the image is worth to you more than your safety. I did have come across a situation where I was asked by a manager to delete some photos because I was shooting in a club. I didn’t know my copyright laws and such back then which I couldve prevented deleting my images.
The video below is an interview of Ed Greenberg whom is a New York intellectual property attorny who dealt with photographers of photography copyright, contracts, and creative rights.
There’s two parts, I think its worth watching the video, its like 10 minutes each, but you’ll definitely want to how to deal with copyright issues when you come across it.
Part 1
Part 2
