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Photography Legal in Ireland
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Hello!
I’m new in business and want to know Legal Laws placed in Ireland about photographer rights.
First one is copyright of course – do I need to sign contract with models?
Second one is publishing – if my picture goes to newspaper or journal who’s holding copyrights after that?
Final one is pictures of children NOT in studio (events, school or on street). Why I asking that becouse I was on outdoor session in public park and the guard told me not to take any pictures of kids.
Hey there, a few quick answers. I’m sure others will elaborate a bit more.
First one is copyright of course – do I need to sign contract with models?
Yes, you should get whats called a model release form signed by the model for use of the photos. It’ll save alot of hassle later. There are quite a few online you could download. I think someone posted up one here on PI also…
Second one is publishing – if my picture goes to newspaper or journal who’s holding copyrights after that?
You hold the rights unless you explicitly sell the rights. If you’re asked to supply a photo for say a magazine, its best to stipulate exactly what you’re giving them the photo for ( e.g. print only for Ireland for x mths). Ashley has posted up some great posts on this, do a search and you’ll find it.
Final one is pictures of children NOT in studio (events, school or on street). Why I asking that becouse I was on outdoor session in public park and the guard told me not to take any pictures of kids.
In a public place you can take a photo of anyone you want. No-one has the right to prevent it, its not a crime. That said if a parent objects to a photo being taken, while they have no rights to have you delete a photo, you might feel that its best to do so.
Public parks may be subject to their own by-laws though, certainly that’s the case in Cork (afaik) where there were talks of not allowing the taking of photos of children (silly I know). If you are to take photos at sports (i.e. local soccer club) or school events etc… I think that its probably best to check with the organisers to see if they’re ok with it.
Thanks a lot Mark.
I would appriciate if you or someone else can send me link to Law print so I can print it for my own support as I’m not native Irish and that may be the case someone want to confront me on that matter that I don’t know Irish law.There is no “Law” to say what is legal, only laws to say what is illegal.
Good information can be found at – http://www.digitalrights.ie/2006/05/09/photographers-rights/” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;
Hello
Can somebody put the link to the “photosession contract” form between photographer and model, when i tried to find on google, than i found contracts from USA :-( ,
please help me :-)
Chris
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