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Business event photographers - client asking to relinquish copyright - is this normal? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Filmandnature93@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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We will sing an NDA and they also asked to relinquish copyright. I'm talking with the event planner but to my understanding the client is a multinational company. Is this normal? What would you do?

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[–] Over-Tonight-9929@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I usually just shoot events, edit the photos and send them to the organiser. What they do next with them I don't know/mind. But I've never been asked to transfer the ownership of those photos to anyone. I usually work for slightly smaller companies I guess that's why. My best guess what most would do in this situation is just have them pay a licensing fee or something. Was there anything stated in the contract about ownership before you shot those photos? Or is it now, afterwards, they want to own them?