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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"]<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"]I&rsquo;m an Aussie so I don&rsquo;t know if copyright law is the same over there but it is a pretty grey area in general.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"] In a simple word cover your butt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"] There are two types of image licensing, right managed (RM) and royalty free (RF).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"] For RM, the client pays you each time the image is used, if they want more prints redone, post production work, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"] You retain the original digital image.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"] <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"]You retain the copyright.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"]<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"]For RF images they can use the images how and where they want, this is when you give them the digital images on a disk, they don&rsquo;t need to come back to you for prints and can do with them what they want.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"] You are basically giving them the rights of copyright.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"]<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"]Get your clients to sign a model release form, this can be a simple form to advise them that you may or may not use there images on your web site for promotional purposes, which will benefit you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"] If your clients are under 18 (<st1:country-region><st1lace>Australia</st1lace></st1:country-region>) maybe 21 over there, get the form signed by there parents.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"]<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"]Over here we have an Australian copyright Law web site which offers heaps of free advice and some templates forms for you to fine tune to your requirements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"] Be wary what you shoot out doors as well, for instance you can&rsquo;t photography certain buildings and structures and put them on your web site, this is benefiting you, they can take legal action against you, big business' have no sense of humour.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"]<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"]Hope this has helped you a bit.
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