Re: Providing customers with calendars and shirts using photographs from portrait studios

Subject: Re: Re: Providing customers with calendars and shirts using photographs from portrait studios

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: : My customers have requested that i make shirts and/or calendars that consist of photographs they have had taken at a portrait studio. Is it an infringement on copyright laws to use the photogtaphs? If so, would it be possible to use a portion of them? : Dear Mari, : It is good that you are as perceptive as you are. Paying for a portrait only give you the ownership of the picture not the rights in the image created. : Unless there is a written assignment, there is a serious risk. Cropping the image doesn't deprive the owner of rights. : M. Arthur Auslander : Auslander & Thomas-Intellectual Property Law Since 1909 : 505 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10018 : 212-594-6900, fax 212-244-0028, aus@auslander.com : ELAINE's Workshop (sm) : E arly L egal A dvice I s N ot E xpensive

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