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Resource: Free Photography Contracts – Model Releases, Agreements and Sale Samples For Professional Use

Posted on December 13, 2012 by in Resources

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While it’s strongly recommended to meet with an attorney to iron-out a system that works best for you and your photography, videography, and/or creative business’, these good-as-gold contract templates, created by the folks at Docracy, are a great starting-point for ensuring your creative properties are covered legally.

From model releases, to wedding photography contracts, to forms that cover the sale of your work at galleries, the material below is definitely worth a few moments of your time as an active professional or hobbyist alike.

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O2 Management Admit to the Unlawful Violation of a Photographer’s Right to Work on the 2012 Olympic Grounds

Posted on April 23, 2012 by in Photographers Rights

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Just last week, we covered a story concerning the 2012 Olympic venue O2 over in London that recently made headlines over the management’s controversial stance of  impeding  photographers’ rights if need be.

When a journalist from The Guardian tested the waters with O2’s management pertaining to their stringent photography policies and regulations to see what would happen, security officers immediately approached him (shown in the video above), demanded him to stop filming, and show the footage, even though the reporter was filming on a public street and there exists no law that calls for security guards to view footage. When the journalist denied to show O2′s security footage of what he had recorded on the grounds of the law, one of the men responded that anti-terror laws permit it.

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Police Department Apologizes to Photographer in London For Rights Violation

Posted on April 20, 2012 by in Photographers Rights, Through the Viewfinder

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With all of the recent and persistent headlines concerning the violation of photographers’ rights all over the world comes another story of an infringed photographer’s rights out in London.

After capturing some photographs of a police car and a police van collision, a local photographer was confronted by police officers and told to quit taking pictures and leave the scene immediately. When approached, the man was on a public street, bringing to the light the fact that he was not interfering with police operations and in the legal realm of the law.

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2012 Summer Olympics Venue Management Set to Unlawfully Impede Photographers’ Rights

Posted on April 18, 2012 by in Editorials, Photographers Rights

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With all of the recent problems that photojournalists and news reporters have had to endure from police officers and other influential figures in the United States comes disconcerting news, and raw footage (above), of our fellow creatives across the pond in London, England suffering from the same issues – only this time from security guards.

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Artist Behind the Iconic “Obama Hope” Poser Faces Jail Time After Using the Source Image Without Permission

Posted on February 26, 2012 by in Through the Viewfinder

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Most of us are very familiar with the iconic “Hope” poster (above – right), stamped with the face of President Barack Obama, filled in with colors that represent the United States of America. Los Angeles based artist Shepard Fairey was believed to the be the brains behind every component of the poster, which came out about four years ago in support of Obama’s presidential election. However, recent legal news and updates have suggested and proven otherwise.

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Photographer Finds Himself in Another Copyright Scandal After Using Other Artists’ Work… Again

Posted on February 16, 2012 by in Editorials, Photographers Rights

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David Martyn & Sam Javanrouh's Respective Flickr Images (Top) Used by Mark Stothard as His Own (Below)

In an industry where originality and creativity is the key to one’s success, it can be easy to become disillusioned by the brilliance behind other photographers, their concepts, and just pure convenience. It seems as though professional photographer Mark Stothard is guilty of the disillusionment and expediency… again.

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Telegraph’s Photo Editor Caught in Copyright Fiasco After Using an Image Without Permission

Posted on February 14, 2012 by in Through the Viewfinder

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What would you do if you found one of the photographs you took on a website, being used without your permission, and without proper citation or acknowledgement?

Photographer Jonathan Kent discovered this very scenario recently, on not one, but two occasions, both occurring on the same day, February 8th 2012.

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UK Photographers: Your Similarly Composed Photo May Lead to Copyright Infringement Trouble

Posted on January 26, 2012 by in Editorials

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Be careful of what you shoot, UK photographers. If there is a similar photo with a similar composition out there, you might want to give your image some extra thought if before using it for profit or gain…

Temple Island Collections, a leading UK name in heritage retail, filed and won an intellectual property lawsuit against New English Teas in an effort to protect their famous red bus image shown above.

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Judge Dismisses All Charges Against Student Photojournalist Covering Occupy Rochester Protests

Posted on January 16, 2012 by in Editorials, Photographers Rights

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Jonathan Foster Being Taken Into Custody During the Occupy Rochester Protests

Because we have been reporting on the infringement of photographers’ First Amendment rights recently, I thought I would continue the trend and cover an update to a pressing matter regarding this very issue.

On October 29th, 2011, Jonathan Foster, a 20-year-old Rochester Institute of Technology photojournalism student and reporter of the school’s weekly publication entitled Reporter, was arrested while covering the Occupy Rochester protest in New York.

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