Prepare Image Contract For Free

today we're joined at the studio by Jason Hines he's a lawyer and will be talking to us about contracts for creatives specifically for photographers this is part 2 of his talk part 1 was about copyright check it out if you haven't and well Jason is based in Canada he does talk about a lot of the things that are different in the US there's a lot of information in here and we hope it brings a lot of value to you thank you Jason for teaching this for free as well as letting us put it up here on YouTube let's talk about contracts which kind of goes back to what we're talking about a few minutes ago contracts don't have to be scary they don't have to be intimidating I don't want to be confusing and they shouldn't be confusing I will say that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure okay almost all of the disputes I've seen over the over contracts arise because you go to sort something L after people have a falling out or there's some disagreement and you open the box and look for the contract and there isn't one or it doesn't have a lot of the information that you need it doesn't have all the details so the more you can be proactive and do these things upfront and think about these things upfront and that's part of the reason I'm here today just to give you an awareness of these issues you'll be in a better position to understand what your rights are to manage those rights and enforce them and deal with any fallout when things go sideways okay things may never go sideways for you and if that's the case I'm happy for you but sometimes they do and I've seen it firsthand if you don't have things in writing it's a real mess and the lawyers say something is a mess that's code for it's expensive okay if it's fuzzy and it's a mess it's really expensive all right so here's what it comes down to okay it's not complicated you really want to sit down the who the what the where the when the why and how much okay that's it and we'll go through some key examples over the next couple of slides whoo so the first thing to think about from a contract is who are you are you individual do you have a team of people working with you are you registered do you have a registered company are you working as an individual photographer is there a partnership what's the legal nature of the business okay you'd be surprised how often people don't understand this I've had clients tell me that their company name is X limited when I look at the information Gold not that company doesn't even exist you've been working out this for ten years buying and selling things where the company doesn't actually exist the name is totally different they don't pay attention to that stuff it's very important get your legal name right figure out who you are okay who you doing business with who are your clients are you doing business with a bride and a groom that comes up sometimes are you doing business with a company if you're doing business with two people or three people please get them all...