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Author Topic: Property Release Issue -- Private Golf Course  (Read 2354 times)

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« on: December 29, 2016, 11:26 »
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Hi all,

I'm fairly new to stock and am enjoying the experience of photographing and uploading. So far I've tried to avoid needing releases as much as possible, but recently I visited a gorgeous golf course in Florida and couldn't help but snapping some wide shots which clearly show large sections of the course. I figured I might need a property release for these images, so i sent them along to someone who works at the course, who told me he'd get me a signed property release as long as I gave him all the photos I took for them to use free of charge as advertising.

I realize this could work, but I'm a pretty low earner on stock sites so far and I probably wouldn't make much on these pictures, so it seems like a really bad deal to give them away like this. There wasn't a no-photo policy at the course, and the tiny bit of research I did told me that I might not need a release after all. It seemed as if maybe the guy I talked to was trying to take advantage of the situation a little bit. So my question is, do i really need a release? I've attatched screenshots of a couple photos which might raise an issue.

Thanks!
Joseph

« Last Edit: December 29, 2016, 11:32 by josephjacobs »


« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2016, 11:46 »
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Just give them the images to use.  It's not a big deal.  I trade all the time for access.

« Reply #2 on: December 29, 2016, 17:21 »
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How would the owner of the private property on which the pictures were taken cut into your market for licensing the image to everyone else? I'd argue not much at all. So your thought that you're being taken advantage of is the loss of licensing revenue to this one customer?

As many of the sites are getting much more rigorous about asking for property releases, there's a very good chance you won't get to license the images at all without a release. It's never in your best interests to license images where there might later be issues over the commercial use of images of the property.

Make sure you give them the images with a license (like one an agency would provide but that is from you) that makes clear what they can and cannot do (so they don't upload them to stock websites, for example) and thank them for their cooperation :)

« Reply #3 on: December 29, 2016, 20:22 »
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How would the owner of the private property on which the pictures were taken cut into your market for licensing the image to everyone else? I'd argue not much at all. So your thought that you're being taken advantage of is the loss of licensing revenue to this one customer?

As many of the sites are getting much more rigorous about asking for property releases, there's a very good chance you won't get to license the images at all without a release. It's never in your best interests to license images where there might later be issues over the commercial use of images of the property.

Make sure you give them the images with a license (like one an agency would provide but that is from you) that makes clear what they can and cannot do (so they don't upload them to stock websites, for example) and thank them for their cooperation :)

I think that's what I'll do, thanks for the advice!

« Reply #4 on: December 29, 2016, 20:22 »
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Just give them the images to use.  It's not a big deal.  I trade all the time for access.

Good to know, thanks.


 

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