How do I copy right an image ?

What defines a Panorama? The image in question was a stock image from Jason Hawkes (below) to be used in a recruitment campaign for a well-known bank. Perhaps it's because the image almost entirely comprises the stadium that we weren't allowed to use it. This was in 2015.

JasonHawkes-5554_xgaplus.jpg


You were talking about monetising imagery; ie commercial use.

There's nothing to prevent that image being sold at all because you can't own the IP rights to a vista. It's also specifically covered in the CDPA 1988 under Sect 62.

The use that you are talking about however is completely different.

I mentioned it above when referring to advertising and passing off.

The image itself implies nothing, however if the accompanying copy in the advert implies association or support for the bank (which is well known for high profile sports sponsorship) from the Emirates, that's a completely different matter.
It is the copy that's the issue, not the image, apart from the prominence of the stadium in terms of position and lighting.

Ironically, the bank that you are talking about was well known for getting heavy handed about photographs which included its corporate HQ on Canary Wharf pre-2013.

Could implied support be passing off? Possibly.

The Rihanna case was more about merchandising rights than false endorsement but the potential threat is still there and whilst advertising (and other) companies continue to take a risk-averse based approach, then there won't be any case law to resolve the issue either way.
In more basic terms, the property owners will continue to get away with their bullying tactics until someone stands up to them. :)
 
Watermarks are very good for prevention. I would never steal an image sporting a watermark. I even don"t look at them. :D
 
Last edited:
The National Trust prevents the commercial use of images of their property taken on their property. The legal mechanism for this are the laws of trespass.

Given the siting and locations of most of their estate, this is a fairly effective preventative measure.

However, as they freely admit, there is nothing they can do to prevent images being sold that were not taken on their own property.


Lads this thread is incredibly informative ,cheers for the time taken in some of the posts I have some semblence of umderstanding at a very base level about copyright but very little.

Mark as a novice(me) that might take pics on national trust land of wildlife. Where an identification of where the actual site might be is not shown in the image,might there be any ramification if I sold said image/s, in anyway whatsoever.???

Mark I don't really frequent trust properties of late, I am frankly unsure if I have wildlife images taken on trust property,I might have nothing that I have tried to sell I simply don't know. This is hypothetical I haven't ever sold anything image wise Mark one can be aware of things like trespass liscences for schedule 1 protected birds as an example, mainly by looking plain and simple for potential pitfalls . But areas like this a bit left field of the trust protecting images of their stately houses etc Which, one would imagine is what this protection is more about, about i'm not going to find or even muse.

Maybe it's too left field,maybe the trust would never consider action,Maybe i'm mad for asking my apologies if so. But I'd rather know one way of the other, If there is any potential implication to making images of wildlife??

sorry to crash in hope ya don't mind me bothering you

take care

stu
 
I know absolutely nothing (well. very, very little) about Sched 1 birds - I've only ever photographed one Barney in a field at the back of my (then) house. I knew where it nested & this was a hunting ground several hundred metres away from it.

As for Sched 1 birds on NT territory... I'd suggest a lot of the restriction will be down to what's written in the IPTC if there are no visible land marks.

It's worth remembering that the NT & NH are getting arsey just about images being shot on their landscape properties; ie Snowdonia.
 
I know absolutely nothing (well. very, very little) about Sched 1 birds - I've only ever photographed one Barney in a field at the back of my (then) house. I knew where it nested & this was a hunting ground several hundred metres away from it.

As for Sched 1 birds on NT territory... I'd suggest a lot of the restriction will be down to what's written in the IPTC if there are no visible land marks.

It's worth remembering that the NT & NH are getting arsey just about images being shot on their landscape properties; ie Snowdonia.

Mark thank you for the reply,mate sorry my post above is not easy to read,my fault,entirely.

Mark it isn't schedule one birds but all and any wildlife on trust property that I am asking about.. I'm aware of what i need to do if I wanted to make images of schedule one .

Where my confusion lies, is if I make an image on trust land of wildlife,but your last sentence pretty much covers it I suppose.

Mark the deer breed soon, it was in many ways these that made me ask. Alot of images will be made, of deer shortly i'd surmise many on trust land,I wondered whether folks might be endangering them selves ?

My apologies again Mark english lang will never be my forte posting when shattered is't a great idea,but it is how it is. cheers for your patience

As before I think you have pretty much covered it

thank you

stu
 
Mark the deer breed soon, it was in many ways these that made me ask. Alot of images will be made, of deer shortly i'd surmise many on trust land,I wondered whether folks might be endangering them selves ?

You only have to read the annual stories of wuckfits running around Richmond and Bushey Parks during the rut to know that's always going to be the case! :D
 
So the copyright of any selfies taken at work are owned by the employers.

No, that's not 'in the course of your employment', you're just in work time, there's a difference.

Unless you were specifically, and oddly required to take a selfie as part of your employment.
 
Last edited:
So the copyright of any selfies taken at work are owned by the employers.

Provided of course that the selfie was taken in the course of your employment, i.e. you were either instructed to do it, or it was the kind of thing your employer would have expected you to be doing as part of your employment. Unless there is a specific clause in your employment contract which states otherwise, e.g. that any photograph taken during your working hours is theirs. That kind of clause will often appear in the contracts of people actually employed as photographers, but rarely otherwise.
 
It's worth remembering that the NT & NH are getting arsey just about images being shot on their landscape properties; ie Snowdonia.

Have you any up-to-date info about what the NT are up to regarding their Snowdonia "properties"? As a Welsh photographer I might have heard a bit about it but absolutely nothing.
 
Back
Top