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1. #COMMERCIAL OR STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY CONTRACT TEMPLATE HOW TO#
2. #COMMERCIAL OR STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY CONTRACT TEMPLATE REGISTRATION#

#COMMERCIAL OR STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY CONTRACT TEMPLATE REGISTRATION#

Registration of your copyright is a second step and is necessary to formally protect your copyrighted works, but the copyright itself is yours from the get go. You don’t need to do anything else to make it happen. Each of those can be its own essay, but for now remember this: you own a copyright in the images you take from the second you press the shutter. The exclusive rights granted to a creator of a work under copyright law are: the right to make and sell copies of the work, the right to perform and display copies of the work, and the right to create derivative works.

In future posts, I’ll discuss why the latest version of the Copyright Act is from 1976, what modernization has been tacked onto it, and why it’s in dire need of change.Īs you know, Copyright law grants photographers and other creators of works a set of exclusive rights. In the intervening years, Congress has utilized the Copyright Clause to pass several pieces of legislation governing copyright, with the Copyright Act of 1976 being the most recent comprehensive piece of legislation. In Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8, known as the “Copyright Clause,” the text grants Congress the power to “promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.” Every time someone tells you that your copyright is worthless, you can remind them that your protections are derived from no less an authority than the Constitution! In this post, I want to shed some light on work for hire, and how you can best protect yourself in the market.īeing that this is my first blog post for ASMP, I thought I might do a (very short) refresher on the basics of copyright protections in the United States.Ĭopyright protection stems directly from the Constitution.

#COMMERCIAL OR STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY CONTRACT TEMPLATE HOW TO#

One of the questions I get most from working photographers is about the rules related to “works for hire” in copyright law and contracts and how to identify them.