JG_Coleman
No longer a newbie, moving up!
- Joined
- May 30, 2010
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- Location
- Wolcott, Connecticut, USA
- Website
- www.jgcoleman.com
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I have something of strange situation on my hands (at least I think so), and I'm wondering if anybody can give me a bit of advice or some insight into how I should handle this.
I'm a co-owner of a business related to hiking and outdoors and I'm in the process of re-designing our website. Since I've been amassing a library of my own nature photography for some time now, I got around to thinking that I would like to use my own photos oftentimes on the website. For example, if we do an article on the website about a certain state park in Connecticut, I would like to use some of my own photography to illustrate the article.
My problem with the whole thing is that I want to maintain my own copyright on my photographs... independent of my co-owned company. In other words, I envision my photographs remaining my own, personal property... but simply licensing them for a one-time use to my hiking/outdoors business whenever the situation might arise.
So... well, I suppose I'm not exactly sure what my question is. Basically, I don't know what this entails or exactly how to go about this. Does anyone have any experience doing something similar?
Since the photos are mine and I'm a co-owner of the business, do I even need to write-up a license, at all? Or, if I do need to write up a license, can I do so for $0.00 (since I don't want to essentially charge myself to license my own photos)?
Any thoughts on this matter would be greatly appreciated...
I'm a co-owner of a business related to hiking and outdoors and I'm in the process of re-designing our website. Since I've been amassing a library of my own nature photography for some time now, I got around to thinking that I would like to use my own photos oftentimes on the website. For example, if we do an article on the website about a certain state park in Connecticut, I would like to use some of my own photography to illustrate the article.
My problem with the whole thing is that I want to maintain my own copyright on my photographs... independent of my co-owned company. In other words, I envision my photographs remaining my own, personal property... but simply licensing them for a one-time use to my hiking/outdoors business whenever the situation might arise.
So... well, I suppose I'm not exactly sure what my question is. Basically, I don't know what this entails or exactly how to go about this. Does anyone have any experience doing something similar?
Since the photos are mine and I'm a co-owner of the business, do I even need to write-up a license, at all? Or, if I do need to write up a license, can I do so for $0.00 (since I don't want to essentially charge myself to license my own photos)?
Any thoughts on this matter would be greatly appreciated...