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> As a Photographer, you are not allowed to encourage Subjects to use your services outside of the B-Roll platform. > If you don’t follow this rule and work wi

> As a Photographer, you are not allowed to encourage Subjects to use your services outside of the B-Roll platform. > If you don’t follow this rule and work with a Subject outside of the platform during this period, you (and/or the Subject) will have to pay B-Roll an “Off-Platform Activity Penalty” of the greater of $500 for each off-platform relationship or the amount paid or owed to the Photographer over the previous 12 months. > Photographers assign the intellectual property rights (IP) for the photographs they produce to B-Roll. ... If a Subject purchases photographs, the IP transfers to them; if not, B-Roll retains the IP Ouch.

CobaltFire 2y ago
That third term especially makes this a non-starter for any aspiring photographer. The others aren’t going to be looked on kindly either. This is why they are targeting “aspiring”, aka the ones who don’t know better. Those are some insanely predatory terms. For anyone NOT familiar with how this type of session photography works, the IP rights of photos generated are typically retained with the photographer and specific use rights are purchased by the subject. Purchasing the IP rights for a session is usually significantly more expensive (depends on the photog, and they may not even offer it). The only ones who give up IP rights so easily are the photogs who don’t know any better.