Capture Bliss Photography offers a Print Release

A print release does not allow the client to edit the images, claim it as their own, or remove your logo when they’re sharing it with other people – unless given them permission from the photographer. Essentially, a print release gives the client limited access to their images. They can use them for their own personal reasons and nothing else. They may print the images wherever they'd like or use on any social media platform. The photographer can continue to use the pictures they took for marketing and branding purposes– provided that the client is comfortable with this.

Copyright is a federal law of the United States that protects original works of authorship. A work of authorship includes literary, written, dramatic, artistic, musical and certain other types of works.

Copyright attaches as soon as the original work is created, and applies to both published and unpublished works. As soon as you type words, click the shutter on your camera (or, for many of you, hit the home button on your iPhone), apply paint to canvas or paper or lay down tracks for your next hit, you’ve got a copyright (with some exceptions).

Copyright is an automatic right and does not require the author to file special paperwork, as is the case for trademark and patent. Registration is required to enforce the rights, but as a matter of right, an author is not required to register anything to get the right to use the “circle c,” showing the work is copyrighted.

One of the many terrific things about copyright is that it comes with a host of exclusive rights that allow the owner to do or authorize a number of things and exercise substantial control over his or her work. The copyright owner has the right to do four things (called exclusive rights):

1. Reproduce the copyrighted work;
2. Display the copyrighted work publicly;
3.  Prepare derivative works based on the copyrighted work; and
4. Distribute copies of the copyrighted work to the public by sale, rental or lending, and/or to display the image.