mjf474
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Hi, I'll try to keep this short and to the point.
I am a photographer just starting out basically, doing mostly portrait photography. Recently I got involved in some clothing designers runway shoots, as I have been wanting to get into event photography.
So, the verbal agreement with this designer was that I would shoot his show and provide some images for free to all models who sold 5 tickets or more for his show (his idea) and I would get the opportunity to sell the other images to all other models who did not sell 5 or more tickets. He said he would rent out a space in which the models could come see their images and order them from me if interested.
Well, the show came and went. I shot all models, edited about 900 images. (mostly just cropping, but some required photoshopping out weird background objects, tape on the floor, etc ) I sent him a DVD with all the images on it (not Raw, but fullsize jpegs) foolishly.
He then decided that it was too expensive to rent out a space to allow me to show images to the other models. He sent me some email addresses of these models, but none have replied when I emailed them about images, so I'm not even sure they are real addresses. Then after a little arguing back and forth through email he said he is going to email all the models and tell them not to purchase any images from me.
So, he got all his images and I got nothing out of this... not even the opportunity to try to sell.
I still have copywrite technically. Is there anything I can do to even attempt to keep him from using any of those images? .... Even some kind of legal form or statement, or something to deter him from using them?
Any advice?
Thanks,
MJF
I am a photographer just starting out basically, doing mostly portrait photography. Recently I got involved in some clothing designers runway shoots, as I have been wanting to get into event photography.
So, the verbal agreement with this designer was that I would shoot his show and provide some images for free to all models who sold 5 tickets or more for his show (his idea) and I would get the opportunity to sell the other images to all other models who did not sell 5 or more tickets. He said he would rent out a space in which the models could come see their images and order them from me if interested.
Well, the show came and went. I shot all models, edited about 900 images. (mostly just cropping, but some required photoshopping out weird background objects, tape on the floor, etc ) I sent him a DVD with all the images on it (not Raw, but fullsize jpegs) foolishly.
He then decided that it was too expensive to rent out a space to allow me to show images to the other models. He sent me some email addresses of these models, but none have replied when I emailed them about images, so I'm not even sure they are real addresses. Then after a little arguing back and forth through email he said he is going to email all the models and tell them not to purchase any images from me.
So, he got all his images and I got nothing out of this... not even the opportunity to try to sell.
I still have copywrite technically. Is there anything I can do to even attempt to keep him from using any of those images? .... Even some kind of legal form or statement, or something to deter him from using them?
Any advice?
Thanks,
MJF