Artist Richard Prince, along with his gallery and publisher were sued in 2008 for copyright infringement by photographer Patrick Cariou. This week a federal court ruled in favor of Cariou.

Patrick Cariou's Rasta photo on left, Richard Prince's appropriated image on right.

The court ruled that Prince’s use of many of Cariou’s photographs was infringement and not fair use. Prince is likely to appeal. Assessment of damages and attorney’s fees has not been made. Registering your photographs’ copyright is important. You never know if a famous artist might appropriate your work.

More information at A Photo Editor and the NY Times.

Community Room. DeKalb Apartments, East Norriton, PA.

Sharing costs can make photographing your projects more affordable. The community room pictured above belongs to an apartment complex that we photographed for the builder, the architect, and Scully Company, the property owner.

DeKalb Apartments, East Norriton, PA.

The typical costs of hiring a photographer for a project include the creative fee, assistant, travel costs, post-production costs, and the license to use those photographs for a specific use and a specific time period. Most often when a the project is a building or site there are multiple parties involved and all those entities may be interested in documentation of the work that they have done. All costs except for the licensing can be split.

Community Room. DeKalb Apartments, East Norriton, PA.

These shared projects provide a great value to our clients as it allows some of the cost to be divided between them.

DeKalb Apartments, East Norriton, PA.

Even on a smaller budget, it is possible to have beautiful, high impact, professional photographs if two or more parties are interested in sharing the costs.

Sample Unit. DeKalb Apartments, East Norriton, PA.