Product Description

The photographer's definitive business and legal resource is now completely updated and expanded. In this valuable guide, arts attorney Leonard DuBoff takes you step by step though all the legal aspects of the photography business. Here is expert advice for everything from contracts to trademarks, including government licenses, taxes, censorship, the rights of privacy and publicity, leases and insurance, estate planning, and more. This latest, up-to-the minute edition pays special attention to the legal challenges that have been brought about by digital cameras and the Internet. With the important legal advice found in this guide, you'll save thousands of dollars in attorney fees–and find expert legal assistance when you need it the most.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #413140 in Books
• Published on: 2002-05-01
• Released on: 2002-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Review
". . . a complete discussion of the legal and business issues of everyday concern to photographers." -- PhotoSource International

From the Publisher
Digital cameras and the Internet have created new markets and opportunities for photographers—as well as new controversies and lawsuits. In an industry already rife with legal concerns, the need is more urgent than ever for photographers to understand their rights and responsibilities, both as artists and as business people. Even with changes in technology, understanding photography law does not have to be confusing or costly to aspiring and working photographers. Help is now on the way. Attorney Leonard DuBoff has fully revised and expanded the industry classic The Law (in Plain English)™ for Photographers.

From the Author
"Much of the material in this volume is intended to enlighten photographers so that legal problems can be avoided," DuBoff observes. "Unfortunately, even the most prudent individual may become entangled in the web of complex legal issues."

Customer Reviews

A basic survey of photographers' rights and obligations
Digital imaging and the Net offer both new markets and legal challenges for photographers: Leonard Duboff's Law In Plain English For Photographers provides a survey of the rights and responsibilities of modern photographers, covering the latest rulings for copyright and trademark law, surveying contract structures and leases, and providing a host of everyday business and legal concerns. An excellent, basic survey of photographers' rights and obligations.

Insightful
Although no book is meant to take the place of an actual attorney when it comes to specific legal matters (as this book prefaces with a disclaimer inside the front cover), this particular book takes an in-depth look at many different legal scenarios involving still photographers. It also gives detailed references of case logs for each legal scenario presented. I found the book to be very useful at anwering questions of an ambiguis nature when it came to certain legal aspects of copyright, usage, contracts and privacy, etc. I highly recommend this book and it is something that every professional photographer such as myself, should have on thier shelf at home.

Missed opportunity
This book disappointed me. At least half the book is devoted to generic topics of setting up one's own business quite apart from anything to do with photography. Filler, from my perspective. The treatment of the legal parameters for photography was way too brief. I leaned a few things from this book but it was hardly the reference manual or comprehensive treatment of the legal aspects of photography I was expecting. This book is going to be donated to the book drive.