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08/23/2005 08:03:08 PM · #1 |
I'm planning now to start a company that will work mainly in photo editing , and i'd want to know about the right to edit, print and frame a photography taken by a professional in a studio. Do the right on this photography belong to the photographer or to the customer?
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08/23/2005 08:22:49 PM · #2 |
I'm not sure I understand the question...
A smart photographer will usually license an image which means that the rights belong to the photographer but usage is extended to the customer. I'm not sure what this has to do with the photo editing business... |
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08/23/2005 09:27:06 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by thatcloudthere:
I'm not sure I understand the question...
A smart photographer will usually license an image which means that the rights belong to the photographer but usage is extended to the customer. I'm not sure what this has to do with the photo editing business... |
well let's say someone bring me a photo that he want edited. I scan the photo (or the film) I edit it, I have it printed and then laminated or framed. I take money from each of these steps. Do I have the right to do this if a photography is one from a professionnal photographers or from a studio.
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08/23/2005 10:36:21 PM · #4 |
Technically speaking, if you are to modify a picture or artwork for personal purposes (selling your service and not the product retouched) this shouldn't be an issue.
You are selling the service, not the artwork you are asked to work on. But i really can't be sure about that.
ONe thing is for sure, make sure your billings do not mention that you are selling the original art, but only the modified product. And also be sure that the person you are doing this for will not mass produce it and resell it...
say someone brings you a picture of JLo and ask you to put his girlfriend's face over JLO's... and then he goes on making calendars out of it... that's bad, although i'm not sure your work is against the law. |
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08/23/2005 11:21:00 PM · #5 |
One thing is for sure, you are not allowed to take a professionnaly photograph and have it duplicated without permission from the photographer.
Last week I went to pick-up my prints at a local store (in Beauport, QC) and the guy in front of me wanted a copy of a family portrait he had taken a few weeks and the clerk was saying that without the express permission of the photograph, they wouldn't do any copy, and the photograph was 10 feet away in the store photo studio..
My guess is that you'll need a special permission from the photograph for every picture you'll want to fix or modify. |
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