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04/23/2011 10:54:44 AM · #1 |
Hello,
My daughter is active in school productions. They are pretty elaborate and take months of rehearsals. The school has a "permanent" photographer that shoots sporting events, dances and other events. He also shoots every play. I see him top center shooting Canon.
However, after the last play, I checked his website. He does not have the photos posted. His site is where you go to purchase your photos. He has many many events. After looking back over the past several years on the site (he keeps them there for sale on a long term basis), I noticed that only one play in the last four years is posted.
Can anyone tell me if he is up against some copyright rule that says he can not sell the photos he takes of the play? If this is the case, why is he there at all? I've never been approached by him offering me the chance to purchase a photo of any of the plays so I'm not sure what he does with the photos.
I hope I made sense ! |
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04/23/2011 11:12:38 AM · #2 |
| Maybe the school and this photographer have a written contract that he is the permanent photographer for the school productions but he cannot *openly* display them on his website (i.e. a parent or the school is concerned that pictures posted might be too public that anyone can view them - thus safety issues, etc. or whatnot). By that I mean, he might have a function in his website that the pictures are posted but they can only be seen by invitation. You could always approach him, introduce yourself and let him know you are interested in purchasing pictures of your daughter performing and see where that goes. |
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04/23/2011 11:16:58 AM · #3 |
| Hmmm, just remembered this as that it has been years since I was in performance....sometimes it might be something contractual with the playwright and play. I remember for a college production of A Lion In Winter the permission to produce the play on stage did not allow our videographer to sell/distribute the recorded production of the play - and I so wanted to have a personal copy of it too:-( |
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04/23/2011 03:52:20 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by CNovack:
Hmmm, just remembered this as that it has been years since I was in performance....sometimes it might be something contractual with the playwright and play. I remember for a college production of A Lion In Winter the permission to produce the play on stage did not allow our videographer to sell/distribute the recorded production of the play - and I so wanted to have a personal copy of it too:-( |
That may have more to do with the fact that the movie rights of A Lion In Winter were sold. My daughter's school does between six and ten plays a year and both video and still photography has never been limited. They did The Wiz two years ago and that was made into a film, so I may be all wrong about movie rights. |
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04/23/2011 07:30:40 PM · #5 |
From what I understand, you are not supposed to videotape or photograph most plays. Our school play was Aladdin, and they tracked down a father who posted photos and requested he remove them. I guess it was a disney play, and disney is quite over-the-top about it.
But my kids were in a couple of plays and videotaping was prohibited because of copyright. |
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04/23/2011 07:51:08 PM · #6 |
| The last play I was in (just a week ago) we had as part of the contract with the copywrite holder that we wouldn't video tape it...but the contract said nothing about still images (of which I've posted hundreds). |
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04/23/2011 08:53:30 PM · #7 |
| I work with a community theater group and we always do photos and video of the play. This is allowed for documenting the show. The only time we'd get in trouble is if we sold anything. Except for the old stuff in public domain, like Shakespeare. |
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04/23/2011 09:13:18 PM · #8 |
It really may depend on the licensing group. Over the years, many of the no photographs, no video taping rules have been relaxed quite a bit. Primarily because community theatre and high school productions are far from professional quality. In fact, the group I work with will often gets a media license to allow for video taping and subsequent purchasing of the video tape. It is all on a show-by-show basis.
All the shows I've done recently (I play in the orchestra) have not said anything at the start of the show about photography. Except one, but that was a distinct theatre business.
I am not aware of any specific photograph license, but I'll ask our president if she knows. Which show(s) are you referring to?
Paul
Message edited by author 2011-04-25 08:44:54. |
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