Copyright Release Form

[Harry Settle]

Can anyone give me a link to a sample of a photo copyright release form.

[mbze430]

For??? Models?

[Longwatcher]

Are you talking about a form to release your copyright to someone else so they now own the copyright or are your talking about a model/property release form?

Or are you talking about a publishing rights/licensing agreement or fair use form (used to give limit publication rights to some one).

[PhotosGuy]

Get model releases and you can avoid lawsuits from people who appear in your photos. Here are some sample releases provided courtesy of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) and Victor S. Perlman, General Counsel and Managing Director of ASMP. For more on this topic, see John Owens' Editorial "Judgment Daze" in the November 2004 issue of Popular Photography and Imaging.

http://www.popphoto.com/article.asp?section_id=5&article_id=1101&page_number=1

[Harry Settle]

A release for me to give to someone allowing them to print my photos. I made up a quickie, but was looking for something with more professional look to it.

[PhotosGuy]

A release for me to give to someone allowing them to print my photos. You mean like WallMart? They have one on the web (somewhere).
If they're your pics, why not make your own?

[robertwgross]

Let's say that you give John Doe permission to print and do what he wants with twenty images on a CD-R that you've made. You prepare a simple statement on your photographer's letterhead.

I, Philip Photographer, give full permission to John Doe to print the images on this disk. All images are (c) copyright 2005 Philip Photographer. Then you sign it and date it.

Then, at the bottom of the letter/statement, you have twenty color thumbnail images that match with the ones on the disk.

---Bob Gross---

[DanteCaspian]

Looking for some clarity here on something.
I have reviewed Canadian Copyright Laws, but can't seem to grasp this:
I have been working for a company as the photographer for a few years now. It is not a photo industry, rather manufacturing. I do commercial & product for/with them.
As per laws, while on the clock, they own the images I take. Fair enough.
While executive management does not really care what I do with images for personal marketing and gain, I would like to have something in writing, to protect both parties, should someone decide to raise a stink. Some of the images are restricted to use with the company I am with, as per our customers (proprietary information and contract agreements), but I am not interested in those images, and will use proper discretion.
That said, how can I set up a release of selected to images, over time, to me and my photo business name, but are still usable to the company for there internal marketing?
This also brings into question, do I then need a model release form the each staff member prominent in images-- or would that be covered?
Or am I making this too complicated? I feel I am as I write this!:o

[PhotosGuy]

I have been working for a company as the photographer for a few years now. It is not a photo industry, rather manufacturing. I do commercial & product for/with them. So you're a full time employee of just that company? I wonder if there's a "Split Rights" provision in Canada, as in Australia.
Copyright Ownership (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?p=6276423)

do I then need a model release form the each staff member prominent in images-- or would that be covered? Check with your HR people. Maybe you're covered in the contracts. When I worked for ANR, everyone was & I didn't ever have to get a release, even for the subsidiary companies. (USA)

[DanteCaspian]

So you're a full time employee of just that company? I wonder if there's a "Split Rights" provision in Canada, as in Australia.
Copyright Ownership (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?p=6276423)

I am a full time employee (project/QA management) with a company. I also, am sole proprietor of my own business.

I will check with my journalist colleagues, something like this must have come up with the likes of that field.


Check with your HR people. Maybe you're covered in the contracts. When I worked for ANR, everyone was & I didn't ever have to get a release, even for the subsidiary companies. (USA)

We have little clarity on that internally.


Thanks for the comments!

[Mike R]

When I give (rarely) a CD I lightscribe the label onto it and include permission for prints to be made. This way the release doesn't get lot or forgotten.