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How do you write a contract?

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K46:
I was approached recently by a dog breeder to click pictures of her dogs and I've never written a contract. I could approach this two ways:

1) Do the job for her and charge her full
2) Get a release to sell the resulting pictures and charge less.

Do you have any templates that you refer to- it's my first time and I have no clue what bits are a must and what is just excess.

unnonimus:
there are many web sites that have free forms or cheap forms for photographer and client. search the net and you will find them. they used to always be free but now it is more difficult to get free ones.

if she pays you in full, she owns the copyright, remember that. it would be a work-for-hire.

dpimborough:

--- Quote from: unnonimus on May 22, 2018, 06:35 ---there are many web sites that have free forms or cheap forms for photographer and client. search the net and you will find them. they used to always be free but now it is more difficult to get free ones.

if she pays you in full, she owns the copyright, remember that. it would be a work-for-hire.

--- End quote ---

Wrong the client does not get the copyright unless the producer/photographer signs it over irrespective of how much is paid

unnonimus:
you said: "Wrong the client does not get the copyright unless the producer/photographer signs it over irrespective of how much is paid"

wrong. in the USA, according to the US copyright office, under the circumstances of a work for hire, the copyright of the work is transfered upon creation and the photographer would not be a copyright holder at any time even though he took the photos.

unnonimus:
https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ09.pdf
Owner of the Copyright in a Work Made for Hire
"If a work is made for hire, the employer or other person for whom the work was prepared [for] is the initial owner of the copyright" (not the photgrapher)

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