musicaleCA
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Hmm, my first thread is about licensing. I hope that's a good sign for me in photography. Anyway...
Here's the situation. While I was out and about in downtown Vancouver, snapping some candids and street shots, I took some telephotos of a hair salon I saw, who had *the* most awesome front desk ever (Basically the front of an old Chevy body), and really nice, colourful hair styles. They saw me, posed crazily for the camera, I walked over, and asked them nicely if I could shoot them while they worked, explaining how much I loved the colours and styles of their hair. They agreed, and also signed model releases for me too (I wish I could post a few from the impromtu shoot, but I can't until the people I took the photos of approve them for use since I did some minor edits like colour correction; they wanted to see them before I showed them, which is fair). I guess it's a good thing I got my 50mm f/1.4 when I did (two days prior), because I shot the entire time with it.
Now, after seeing the results that I emailed them, they'd like to use some on their website. Frankly I'm pretty happy about this, as I've been shooting for all of a month and a half, and now there's a business that wants to use my photography. It was all very informal and unplanned, and I'm hardly an established pro, so I'm not asking for money (and I might as well enjoy doing photography purely for the joy of it while I can); all I want is attribution when they use them on their site (which, at the very least, gets my name in front of people's eyes).
My question is, should I limit their use of my photos for a certain duration within the license, say a year, or should I just give them a perpetual license to my photos (within the terms of the license, of course, which excludes all printed media, and places strict restrictions on electronic distribution; they would only be able to use them on their website's domain without my prior written consent)? I'm considering the latter, mostly because I'm not going to be making any money off of them anyway, so I might as well just avoid more paperwork down the road for both our sakes. (I've put in a clause that makes the license null and void if they violate the terms, which guarantees that we both go back to the negotiating table, as it were, if they did for whatever strange reason. )
Any other pointers that you guys and gals might feel I could use would be greatly appreciated. This is totally new territory, and while I'm quite comfy reading the law, writing a legal document (no matter how straight-forward I try to keep it) is not something I'm a fan of. >.< (I'm using the licensing information on ASMP as a guide.)
Here's the situation. While I was out and about in downtown Vancouver, snapping some candids and street shots, I took some telephotos of a hair salon I saw, who had *the* most awesome front desk ever (Basically the front of an old Chevy body), and really nice, colourful hair styles. They saw me, posed crazily for the camera, I walked over, and asked them nicely if I could shoot them while they worked, explaining how much I loved the colours and styles of their hair. They agreed, and also signed model releases for me too (I wish I could post a few from the impromtu shoot, but I can't until the people I took the photos of approve them for use since I did some minor edits like colour correction; they wanted to see them before I showed them, which is fair). I guess it's a good thing I got my 50mm f/1.4 when I did (two days prior), because I shot the entire time with it.
Now, after seeing the results that I emailed them, they'd like to use some on their website. Frankly I'm pretty happy about this, as I've been shooting for all of a month and a half, and now there's a business that wants to use my photography. It was all very informal and unplanned, and I'm hardly an established pro, so I'm not asking for money (and I might as well enjoy doing photography purely for the joy of it while I can); all I want is attribution when they use them on their site (which, at the very least, gets my name in front of people's eyes).
My question is, should I limit their use of my photos for a certain duration within the license, say a year, or should I just give them a perpetual license to my photos (within the terms of the license, of course, which excludes all printed media, and places strict restrictions on electronic distribution; they would only be able to use them on their website's domain without my prior written consent)? I'm considering the latter, mostly because I'm not going to be making any money off of them anyway, so I might as well just avoid more paperwork down the road for both our sakes. (I've put in a clause that makes the license null and void if they violate the terms, which guarantees that we both go back to the negotiating table, as it were, if they did for whatever strange reason. )
Any other pointers that you guys and gals might feel I could use would be greatly appreciated. This is totally new territory, and while I'm quite comfy reading the law, writing a legal document (no matter how straight-forward I try to keep it) is not something I'm a fan of. >.< (I'm using the licensing information on ASMP as a guide.)