Thinking of hiring a freelance photographer for a communications campaign? Laura Elizabeth Pohl’s the NGO Storytelling blog has a great post this week discussing licences, copyright and usage — issues that frequently come up in a freelance photographer’s contract.
Excerpt: Getting photos from photographers is simple; they take the photos, you pay for them, and then those photos are yours to do with as you like. Sound good? I’m afraid not. With some photographers this might be the case but with the majority of professional photographers, you will find that what you are paying for isn’t the photo but a license to use it. – Isaiah Brookshire, writer & photographer
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