Protect Your Photographs: A Legal Guide for Photographers (Protect Your Creative Works)

Whether you are a professional photographer or you take photographs as a hobby, Protect Your Photographs will help you avoid common, costly legal mistakes. In this practical guide, licensed attorney Maria Crimi Speth provides comprehensive yet easy-to-understand descriptions of the applicable laws that affect photographers and their photographs. Illustrated with examples from real cases and real situations, Protect Your Photographs covers the four main areas of intellectual property law and the interplay between these areas as they relate to photographers. The guide focuses strongly on copyright law – the main area of law protecting images and also includes sections that discuss the copyright registration process in detail, how to avoid infringement claims against you, international rights, online protection, and the contracts that photographers are most likely to encounter. A valuable resource for photographers in any stage of their career, Protect Your Photographs succinctly and completely covers the legal information that photographers need to safeguard their creative works. It answers the questions photographers may have as well as the questions they might not know to ask.