JasonTD
03-30-2009, 04:18 PM
I've been super busy for the past several months with moving (again), work, and podcasting, so I haven't been able to keep up here as much as I did in the past. I'm hoping to rectify that and plan to start up a new thread with some recent photos soon (yay!).
I was wondering about something and was hoping somebody could shed some light on it... What sorts of rights / licensing are involved with photos we make of our own collectibles? I know the characters are owned by Marvel or whatever company created them, and I know the collectibles themselves typically are owned by the company that produces them, but what about photos we take with our own cameras of these pieces?
I ask because I was going to have a poster printed up for my office, produced from a photo I made of a bunch of statues in my collection, and I started wondering about the rights issues for something like this, or even for something like including photographed collectibles in commercial books. I know books like the Spectrum collections have licensed statues each year, Toyfare publishes their own photos every month, and statues even show up in things like The Big Bang Theory and Die Hard 4. Do they have to seek out permission from the various companies, or how does all of that work?
So, anybody know the actual rights issues (if any) involving our own photos of collectibles?
I was wondering about something and was hoping somebody could shed some light on it... What sorts of rights / licensing are involved with photos we make of our own collectibles? I know the characters are owned by Marvel or whatever company created them, and I know the collectibles themselves typically are owned by the company that produces them, but what about photos we take with our own cameras of these pieces?
I ask because I was going to have a poster printed up for my office, produced from a photo I made of a bunch of statues in my collection, and I started wondering about the rights issues for something like this, or even for something like including photographed collectibles in commercial books. I know books like the Spectrum collections have licensed statues each year, Toyfare publishes their own photos every month, and statues even show up in things like The Big Bang Theory and Die Hard 4. Do they have to seek out permission from the various companies, or how does all of that work?
So, anybody know the actual rights issues (if any) involving our own photos of collectibles?