Protecting your Rights as a Photographer by Efrain Padro

Event Description

Summer Lecture Series

PART ONE – Protecting your Rights as a Photographer by Efrain Padro
Wednesday, June 13, 2012, 6:30-7;30 pm
Photo-Eye Gallery is located at
376-A Garcia Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501

For more information contact Anne Kelly at 505-988-5159 x121 or anne@photoeye.com or Melanie McWhorter at 505-988-5159 x112 or melanie@photoeye.com

Photo-Eye Gallery is pleased to announce a Summer Lecture Series, presented in collaboration with New Mexico Lawyers for the Arts. NM Lawyers for the Arts is a nonprofit dedicated to providing artists and arts organizations with pro bono legal assistances and educational programming.

This Summer series will focus on current legal issues in the art world, more specifically, issues in copyright and fair use. The Art Law Lecture Series will be a three-part discussion consisting of two lectures and one panel on the topics of copyright, fair use and current issues in appropriation art – a subject that all artists and photographers would benefit from knowing more about.

All are free and open to the public on a first come, first serve basis.

PART ONE - Protecting your Rights as a Photographer-Efrain Padro -Wednesday, June 13, 2012, 6:30-7;30 pm, with Q. and A. after

The first part of the Art Law Lecture Series will be Protecting your Rights as a Photographer by Efrain Padro. Efrain Padro will discuss the best practices for registering your works, labeling your work (how, where, when), reading a contract (look for terms regarding usage, payment, and who keeps the copyright), memorializing agreements (formally vs. informally), and issues in the copyright of foreign works, model releases and stock photography.

Efrain Padro is a professional photographer who practiced law for 20 years before becoming a full-time professional photographer, specializing in nature, travel, and architectural subjects. His work has appeared in Geographic Expeditions catalogs, Outdoor Photographer, Frommer's Budget Travel, Photo Life (Canada), Bienvenidos Magazine (Puerto Rico) and New Mexico Magazine. He is the author of The Photographer's Guide to New Mexico. Efrain also teaches photography classes and leads field workshops in the U.S. and abroad. He served on the Board of Directors of the North American Nature Photography Association between 2006 and 2009, on NANPA's Executive Committee, Ethics Committee, Advocacy Committee and History Committee and he currently serves on the Advisory Board of the New Mexico Lawyers for the Arts.

PART TWO- Wednesday, July 11, 6:30-8pm Understanding Copyright and Fair Use -by Kameron Kramer

PART THREE-Panel on Bridging the Gap Between Copyright Law and Creativity: