Whose permission do I need to republish photos from a shoot on my website?
Asked 7/25/2018
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I run a UK-based website that interviews people about photo sets posted on sites like Flickr, DeviantArt, and Twitter, and I want to include some of the images alongside the interview. Sometimes I’m in contact with the photographer, and sometimes only with the model or original uploader. If I want to republish the photos on my own site for reference and discussion, whose permission do I need: the uploader/model, the photographer, or both? Does it change if the images came from a commercial shoot or if rights were assigned to someone else?
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So who exactly do I have to get permisssion from to use photos froma shoot
Simply, the person who owns the rights to the image(s) under question.
The vast majority of the time, and absent contractual language otherwise, the photographer is the rights holder.
And in general, to determine who owns rights to individual photos, it's easiest to start with the photographer. Because photographers are the creators of the art, and because most countries' copyright laws assign basic copyright to the creators of art, your typical professional photographer is more knowledgeable about photographic copyrights (at least, their own copyrights), than the subjects of art (i.e., the models).
When it comes to commercial shoots, it is not uncommon for the rights of the photos to be assigned to the client. Additional publishing rights might be solely assigned to the client, or shared between the photographer and client. These rights would be spelled out in the contract between photographer and client. At any rate, the photographer would know what rights they have assigned or conceded.
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You generally need permission from the person who owns the copyright to the photos.
In most cases, that is the photographer, because copyright usually belongs to the creator of the image unless a contract says otherwise. So if the model uploaded the photos, that does not automatically mean they have the authority to let you republish them on your site.
A good practical starting point is the photographer, since they are usually the rights holder and are more likely to know the copyright status of the images. For some commercial shoots, the rights may have been assigned to a client or another party, so the photographer may tell you if someone else controls usage.
So the safest answer is: get permission from the copyright holder, which is usually the photographer unless rights were transferred by agreement.
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