> > From: > Patrick Genovese >> It sounds like a solicitation for "work for hire". Does the client >> retain rights to ALL of the images from the shoot or just the 50 or so >> images submitted? > > Effectively that's what it is but the rights are to the 50 submitted > images only although i'm not sure where I stand if I shoot very > similar images and keep some for myself.
It would depend on just how closely similar they are. Anything of the same scene taken from the same place, similar framing, time of day ... would probably violate your contract. I wouldn't be anxious to use images from the same shoot for other clients. It's just asking for hassles down the road somewhere. Other photographs of the same location taken from a different point of view, different time, different weather ... should not. Others have pointed out that even though you give up the rights to the images, you still should be able to use them for your portfolio as an example of previous work, although I'd want that explicitly spelled out in the contract just to avoid any future questions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
