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Key definition

Use definition

What does Use mean? In legal practice, Use describes any act of dealing with information, materials, works, data or technology. It is usually a contractual umbrella term capturing a broad range of actions, commonly including to distribute, disclose, store, use, analyse, copy, reproduce, extract, modify or adapt, whether in whole or in part. Use is not generally fixed by statute; its scope turns on the wording of the relevant agreement and context. That said, it intersects with specific legal regimes. In intellectual property, “use” of a trade mark in the course of trade (UK Trade Marks Act 1994; Irish Trade Marks Act 1996) and the...

Commercial use of photographs in the UK: copyright, sourcing and licensing (stock/CC/AI), permitted acts, moral rights, model releases, and special risks (celebrities, Royal Family, children, trade marks, panorama)

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Practice notes

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This Practice Note provides guidance on legal issues arising from the commercial Use of photographs

This Practice Note sets out guidance on legal matters that arise when photographs are used commercially. As photographs sit at the heart of many commercial ventures, businesses should adopt a cautious approach to securing and exploiting the necessary rights.

It covers:

photography and Copyright Law
sourcing photographs
key considerations when negotiating licence agreements
special categories of photographs

The Note is written on the basis that a business directly commissions a professional photographer. In many instances, an external agency will be instructed and will then engage a photographer; the same considerations will usually apply. See also the government’s Copyright notice: digital images, photographs and the internet.

Alongside the intellectual property issues discussed in this Note, photographers and others using or otherwise processing photographs must also ensure compliance with the following, which are not the focus of this Note:

data protection law, where the photograph constitutes personal data—see Practice Note: Data protection and the creative industries and, for an introduction to UK data protection law bringing together key practical guidance, see: UK data protection law collection
laws relating to the

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Jessica Stretch

Jessica is senior intellectual property lawyer with over 10 years of experience, advising on all aspects of trade marks, passing off, copyright, designs and domain names. Her practice covers contentious and non-contentious IP with a particular focus on brand clearance, anti-counterfeiting and digital media. Jessica works as a freelance IP lawyer, primarily with technology companies including eBay and King. She began her career as an IP litigator at Osborne Clarke LLP and Kemp Little, followed by a professional support role at LexisNexis UK. ...

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