Retaining rights to a photo

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Last year I entered a photography competion at work and was one of twelve winners (calendar) :cool: As part of this the photos are printed and hung in the HR corridor and they quite often are asked for prints of these so this year they are going to sell prints of the photos and proceeds will go to our nominated charity which I'm all for :thumbs:

The Corporate comms team have asked my persmission to do this which I'm happy about but what I don't want is someone then using the photo to resell it. They will only have a print so am I worrying about nothing or can I word the reply to corp comms that I'm covered? :rules:

Cheers :cuckoo:
 
Presumably you took the picture and the rights are yours? I only mention this because if you are in permanent employment then your employer has extensive rights to anything you do in any way connected with work, and this can even include private pictures that you assumed were yours.

Anyway, if they are yours and you have not signed anything assigning any rights elswhere, then nobody can legally do anything without your permission. That doesn't stop them doing anything illegal though ;)
 
Yeah the photos where taken in my own personal time just entered into a company competition, there wasn't pages of rules or legal blurb either.

I'll fire them off an email saying it's fine as long as no one goes on to sell them and makes millions ;)
 
State in writing to your Corps team that the photographs are your copyright and may only be used for personal and non-commercial use and that it is forbidden by law to copy or resell any prints provided.

On all prints sold, have a sticker put of the back of them stating: 'Copyright, Designs & Patents Act 1988. The unauthorised copying or reproduction of this phortograph is a criminal offence'. That's what I have on all of my prints.
 
Based on this, you own the copyright and you can give your employer a licence to sell the images for personal use only - no copying or commercial use. Tricky though, there's no way you can stop people from scanning them and making their own prints once they're out there.
 
Its very simple. Everytime you sell a photo, pass on an image or whatever, you should also be passing on a 'usage rights agreement' telling clients what they can and can't do, and also of course clearly stating that no matter what, the copyright remains with you.

Standard practisce.

Paul.
www.photographybyriddell.co.uk
 
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