Want to write for PhotoLegal?

If you’ve got a perspective on legal issues facing photographers that you’d like to write about for PhotoLegal, please get in touch with us via the contact page. We’ll be happy to let you write an initial post, then if readers like what you do, we’ll give you an ongoing contributor login so you can write occasionally when you have something to say.

Photo Competitions – Petition to the Prime Minister

Our next episode when we return in September will be a discussion on rights grabs by photo competitions and we’ll be joined by a representative of Pro-imaging – an organisation which is currently running a campaign to identify competitions which harvest rights from photographers. They have published an ‘Artists Bill of Rights’ which sets out uses which they consider to be reasonable use of images entered into competitions and encourage competition organisers to write their terms and conditions to comply with it.

No. 7 – Your questions with Kate Day of The Telegraph

In a first for PhotoLegal, on episode 7 we enjoyed the company of a returning guest, Kate Day from the Daily Telegraph who joined us to answer your questions.

Episode 7 will be a questions special, then we’re taking a break

Episode 7, to be recorded on Thursday 16 July and released on Tuesday 21 July, will be a questions special. Ask us anything you want about photography, legal or otherwise and we’ll do our best to answer.

No. 6 – Workflow/Retouching with Stephen Johnson of Copyright Image

For this episode, we took a break from all the legal stuff and spoke with Stephen Johnson of Copyright Image about workflow and retouching. Stephen formerly worked at Stone Images and Getty before setting up his own consultancy business. We really enjoyed talking to him and there’s a lot of information in this recording which will be useful to any photographer.

All change on the PhotoLegal Express

We’ve now recorded five episodes of PhotoLegal and released four. It’s been a successful enterprise beyond our wildest dreams, with over 1,000 downloads each time an episode is added. We’re really very grateful to you, our listeners, for the support you’ve shown.

Now that our processes have settled down, we need to make some changes. We hope these will improve your listening experience and access to information, although please feel free as ever to let us know in the comments if this is not the case.

PhotoLegal goes international with US special

Yesterday evening we were pleased to confirm that episode #5 will be a US special, and our guest will be Carolyn Wright, an attorney in the US who specialises in issues related to photography.

Coming soon …

We hope you enjoyed the first two podcasts and wanted to take the opportunity to signpost for you what’s coming next, and also give you an opportunity to suggest what you’d like us to cover.

No. 2 – Photography in Public Places with Olivier Laurent from BJP

We’ve now recorded the second podcast and hope you enjoy it. Please listen right to the end (including after the music) as we have put a little extra there for you. Our guest on this episode was Olivier Laurent from the British Journal of Photography, a weekly magazine about the latest news in the photographic industry.

Thanks PhotoNetCast

Antonio Marques over at PhotoNetCast (another great photography based podcast) very kindly offered to plug PhotoLegal on their latest recording, made today and released soon.

We made this short 30 second promo – if you run a podcast and you’d like to help us out, please feel free to download and use.