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Photography Usage Rights
If i get photography Negatives on a DVD-R will i be able to print these on my own on my computer?

I was talking to our wedding photographer and when i asked to see the contract on the contract it says “this aggrement includes the purchase of Unlimited usage rights of all original photographs and the resulting digital negatives will be shipped to you on DVD-R media” so does that mean i can print them on my own? or do i have to go through them (very expensive through them) to get my prints? will i be able to print off the DVD-R or is that just gonna be a slide show of some type? sorry for my ignorance thanks!

You should ask your wedding photographer to see what format he is providing the “negatives” in.

If he provides full resolution, unencrypted, .jpg, .tif or raw image files, you can either print them out on your own computer or upload them to samsclub.com for instance, and have them printed there.

You will be able to read the files off the DVD-R media with your DVD drive on your computer.

Photography Usage Rights

The future of copyrighted photos….?

Below is an article on using “creative commons” to grant “limited usage” to creative works, from music, to photography.

I think it just regulates what already happens anyway.
I’m not for any unauthorised use of my images, but I know it happens, I’ve even seen prints, so why worry about it.

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Photography, usage, copyright laws?

I’ve taken a good number of photographs for fun for a man over the last decade. I’ve used them for display on websites to show off my work. Now he is using them on his various websites promoting his music or what not. He is telling me because he is the subject, that he owns all rights to the photos & that if there is any profit seen from these photos, I will receive nothing. is this correct?

Tell him quite simply that copyright belongs to the photographer and as the copyright holder ONLY the photographer has the right to display, copy, sell etc the photographs.

As the subject he has NO inherent rights whatsoever unless he was paying you to take the photographs under a private & domestic commission. This would normally be the wedding/family portrait sort of shoot.

You as the photographer can display them and if you are in the UK you can use them for virtually anything without a “model release” as long as the usage is not libelous or defamatory.

In the US then to use them for any sort of advertising (i.e. where it would appear the subject condones or supports a cause or product) then you will require a model release to use them.
But they can be used by the photographer for Editorial or “art” purposes.

He as the subject CANNOT use them for any purpose which is not agreed with the copyright holder.

In other words, tell him to go and take a jump and if he continues to use them then you can sue him for copyright infringement if there was no usage agreement in place, either verbal or written.

Image rights explained visually