Sports Photographer [email protected] personal opinions etc etc
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Alex Sports Photography retweeted
@thelipfc Seven months on from exposing a lack of financial transparency and accountability to club members, we've still got....
....yes you guessed it....a lack of financial transparency and accountability to club members.
What's going on?
Alex Sports Photography retweeted
I've not signed and I wont sign anything the league ask me to.
Until the league pay us all directly the copyright on all my photos are mine. – at Hoo Saint Werburgh, England
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Fuming with this, if this ever happens I’ll give it up or carry on taking pics and not signing any agreement. I own my pics, nobody else. – at Chorley, England
Alex Sports Photography retweeted
What a plum. Ask him for one example of something which has previously 'gone viral' and made shed loads of quids for a feeloading volunteer. 😶
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"I know you photograph the Premier League week in week out, and just want to do this one game in the Isthmian League, but I'm afraid you're going to have to double your PLI as the players in this level are much more valuable."
Alex Sports Photography retweeted
They then make us hand over the footage so they can monetise it, not allowing us to use OUR content until 0001 Monday after a Saturday game. BT Sport have stated numerous times they're fine with clubs media output. All seemed to happen once @PHNonLeague weaselled their way in.
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Exactly what's going on with the video in the @TheVanaramaNL. Apparently everything we shoot for clubs with our equipment, on our time, with no support (training/financially/equipment) belongs to them. Would love to see how the issue of copyright ownership stands up in court.
Alex Sports Photography retweeted
I would NEVER enter into a contract on that basis (even if it were valid) I take pictures in the Northern Premier - another BetVictor sponsored league - but sign nothing and own my IPR. I would never contemplate Isthmian League photography on that basis.
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Taylor Swift learned the hard way about bullying tactics and (sensibly) backed down. And to be frank she had at a smidgen more of legitimacy that the Isthmian League. theguardian.com/media/2015/j…
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@AlexSportsPhoto well Alex, I happen to be a sports photographer AND a lawyer and I specialise in IP. This is idiotic: if I were the sponsor I would be furious; if I was the chairman of a league club I would be furious. I wonder why the League thinks this is OK?
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So the league who got in bed with a betting company because 'it was too much to turn down' now wants to cash in on volunteer photographers pics in case they go viral & make a few quid. How far removed from normality is this!? Incredible. I've pretty much had it with this league.
Alex Sports Photography retweeted
I’ll gladly send them the photo which has gone viral, with a fuck off big watermark over it.
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Mmmm may want to consider paying those photographers a wage first then @IsthmianLeague, not sure this will stand in any court of law never mind just how morally wrong this is 😡
Needs all @IsthmianLeague club photographers to stand together on this one – at Wales, United Kingdom
Alex Sports Photography retweeted
So if a volunteer photographer who pays for their own camera, lenses, equipment, insurance and expenses gets a once in a lifetime shot that sells the league want a share 😂😂😂 btw, they’ve not got a cats in hells chance of enforcing ownership as no prior agreement in place
Alex Sports Photography retweeted
A simple check of copyright law would have made the league and Mr Robinson look a heck of a lot less silly.
Alex Sports Photography retweeted
Pitchero has stolen quite a few of my images that is why i now watermark all the shots i make public ,when i contacted them they never replied to me .
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betvictoristhmian.co.uk/betv… Photographer Accreditation- a statement.
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This is not okay. Most of us do this on a volunteer basis to help their local club. No way will I PAY(!) the @IsthmianLeague for them to have the rights to my photos. This will just result in photographers ending their work with their local clubs - and that's just sad.
Um what exactly do you think you are playing at @IsthmianLeague? Suddenly want the copyright on all images? Does that include ones taken behind the barriers? Oh no because this is completely uninforceable.
Support your clubs and the volunteers rather than making them feel 1/2
