ruthless Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 In light of the recent threads here on DOL, can someone please give me a rundown on copyright? Or direct me to a good website that covers it in easy to understand language? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chezzyr Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 (edited) There is the Copyright council, arts law and another good link I have got somewhere. Will find them.... Edited March 27, 2009 by chezzyr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chezzyr Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 copyright basics: http://www.copyright.org.au/information/in...tion/basics.htm via that link you can also get various information sheets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chezzyr Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 More useful information is available from Arts Law: http://www.artslaw.com.au/LegalInformation/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chezzyr Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 And some really interesting reading on Photographer's rights: http://www.4020.net/words/photorights.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruthless Posted March 27, 2009 Author Share Posted March 27, 2009 (edited) Thanks I'll attach a pdf from the first link that seems to cover the issue for photographers pretty well. Didn't work Do you have any links to basic photographer's contracts? Edited March 27, 2009 by ruthless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chezzyr Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 I think in one of those links I saw a mention of contracts or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chezzyr Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Ruth, does this help? http://www.artslaw.com.au/LegalInformation...ntroduction.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tess32 Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Interesting bit there that on private land they can only stop you TAKING the photos but once you've taken them they can't do anything, bit strange! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruthless Posted March 27, 2009 Author Share Posted March 27, 2009 Here it is ... http://www.artslaw.com.au/SampleContracts/default.asp Hadn't read that link yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruthless Posted March 27, 2009 Author Share Posted March 27, 2009 Interesting bit there that on private land they can only stop you TAKING the photos but once you've taken them they can't do anything, bit strange! I got escorted out of the car park of a big industrial plant near my house recently Pity I didn't get a few shots first! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chezzyr Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 never mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chezzyr Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 I have been bailed up at dog shows - and escorted out of places. Criminal that I am. I now simply avoid places where I will run into drama/paranoia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tess32 Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 I like those people who think if you have a 'big camera', you're a 'professional', heheeh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chezzyr Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Maybe need to trade our big guns in for a credit card sized camera? Look more like tourists than criminals/photographers then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ripley Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 (edited) Interesting bit there that on private land they can only stop you TAKING the photos but once you've taken them they can't do anything, bit strange! I got escorted out of the car park of a big industrial plant near my house recently Pity I didn't get a few shots first! I had a security guard come and ask what I was doing when I was photographing a shot for that January challenge on DOL (the sunset over the shopping centre carpark photo). I showed him and he was fine. He wanted to stay and chat which irritated me a bit as I was waiting for the twilight to arrive. He said I can come back and take photos there any time but just try and not include any logos of the centre. I was only interested in the streetlights anyway. ETA: I didn't have the big lens, just the sigma 17-70 but I did have a tripod and a grad filter attached and I was standing on a wide wall. Edited March 27, 2009 by Ripley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chezzyr Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Ripley, well you could be a terrorist And at a dog show I could be someone 'employed' to take a horrible shot of someone's dog and send it to all their enemies in the dog world. Maybe I deliberately seek out bad toplines or dodgy gaits, even injuries!!! Not to mention making obscene amounts of money out of the images. I think the world has gone mad - some of us just want to enjoy our photography without all the additional drama. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tess32 Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 oh yeah, it's the photographer that causes bad conformation....hehehe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ripley Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 I subscribe to a UK photography magazine and they are very strict over there. Stories of police insisting they delete the photos there and then in front of them. Apparently that is against the law so people taking photos can refuse to do this. It is, however, illegal to photograph some buildings there. I admit I get a bit nervous taking photos at night alone here. I'd like OH to be with me as I could easily be mugged. I want to try out my new lens in the city when daylight saving ends but I don't want to go down to the foreshore alone at dusk. I'm a very confident person walking about by myself in the city, but not with a lens that stands out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruthless Posted March 27, 2009 Author Share Posted March 27, 2009 From the first link Chezzyr posted Photographs taken of the Sydney Harbour ForeshoreThe Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority Regulations 1999 (NSW) restrict the taking and subsequent use of photographs for commercial purposes. The Regulations prohibit any use of a camera for commercial purposes in a public area unless authorised by the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority. “Public areas” are defined as any part of the Sydney Harbour foreshore that the public is entitled to use and include Luna Park, the Rocks and Circular Quay, Darling Harbour, Woolloomoolloo, Pyrmont, White Bay, Rozelle Bay and the Australian Technology Park. For further information, contact the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority by phone 02 9240 8500 or see the website: http://www.shfa.nsw.gov.au. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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