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Selling photos of OPW buildings for commercial use
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I have been contacted by a company who would like to use photograph of one of the OPW heritage sites exclusively for their product.
I don’t know why they are interested in this particular photograph.I am wondering anyone has any experience in selling exclusively opw buildings for commercial purpose( this might appear on a label or over or something).
I am worried about the copyright usage of the public buildings. Any suggestions, ideas?Contacted OPW, didn’t get a straight answer, asked to put that in a mail and send to them. Waiting for reply.
An update to the above post if anyone is interested…
I received few replies from OPW. All of them say the same thing.Permission to photograph National Monuments in State Care for commercial purposes requires advance permission, and a fee for such photography may be imposed. This permission is not given retrospectively.
So, photographing landmark monuments or buildings for commercial use is not possible without permission.
wow, i find that bizarre. fair play to you for chasing them down for an answer
Would this still apply if the photograph was taken from a public area? I’d imagine that it would still apply, but I’ve certainly seen these type of images for sale & I doubt if all of the sellers sought permission or paid any fees.
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