(This is a reprint of a series of notes I wrote on Facebook in 2009) In our last episode we discovered our Start up costs for a homebased photography business would be about $2950 with an additional $2661 annual reoccurring costs. I this episode we'll talk about Copyright registration costs. In any photography business if you want to protect yourself, your clients, and your business; you need to register your images with the copyright office. If you ever publish your images even to facebook , blog or website; you need to protect what you created. The creation of a photograph is intellectual property, it is art, it is one of a kind. I know there are lots of photographers who think I'll take my money give the client a disk with hi-res photos, provide a release with all the rights, and run. But doing that opens you and your company to risk. Once those files leave your possession with a full release the cat is out of the bag. Here are some potential issues: you no longer can us
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