Survival Kit
Advice on What to Charge
Unsure what to charge for a job? Want to know if you’re being offered a good rate or not? The NUJ’s Freelance Fees Guide and its Rate For The Job Service offers answers to these questions – unfortunately not always up-to-date.
“There are two main ways photographers charge for their work – either on commission, or through reproduction fees. In either case, as “authors” under the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988, and therefore owners of the copyright in their photographs, they are in fact issuing licenses to reproduce them. (Source)”
Know Your Rights
Designed to fit in your pocket
“A short UK guide to the main legal restrictions on the right to take photographs and the right to publish photographs that have been taken. Linda Macpherson LL.B, Dip. L.P., LL.M is a freelance legal consultant specialising in Media Law and Intellectual Property Law. She is also a part-time law lecturer and has presented seminars on law for photographers. The guide is a 2 page PDF, it will print out front and back of an A4 page allowing you to make leaflets to hand out. The guide is intended as an overview of the current legal situation in the UK for photographers, it is not a definitive bible of UK law.” (Source)
The Fightback
“Increasing concerns about terrorism, paedophilia, health and safety, personal privacy and plain old paranoia about pretty much anything Her Majesty’s subjects get up to has resulted in a deep mistrust of photographers. Over the next year [the British Journal of Photography] hopes to gather thousands of self-portraits of photographers-professional and amateur—from around the world, each holding up a white card with the words, ‘Not a crime’ or ‘I am not a terrorist’.” (Source)
