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For Members
Legal Education + Business Hub
COVID-19
Health + Safety Guide
The ASMP Health + Safety Guide contains six chapters about topics ranging from evaluating risk to cleaning and disinfecting, along with a list of current resources to assist you in decision-making related to COVID-19 exposure and returning to work.
Business + Legal Guide
The Business + Legal Guide is a companion to ASMP’s Health + Safety Guide for COVID-19. This set of documents, forms, and videos discusses how creators should approach the business and legal issues facing them during the pandemic. This guide is only available to ASMP members.
Government Assistance + Town Hall Videos
During the ASMP Town Hall sessions, the ASMP team gives update on the state of the industry with respect to COVID-19, then open the floor for questions and concerns from attendees.
Legal Education
ASMP’s Legal Jump-start
Legal Jump-start: ASMP’s Business Primer for Photographers is a legal guide created for members that contains valuable insight and information about building your business and protecting your creative work; and is a compilation of core principles related to copyright, contracts, licensing agreements, and formalizing your business.
Copyright + Licensing
- ASMP Canon Business Series: Licensing + Copyright – Video to be posted shortly
- October 2020 Workshop: Copyright + Licensing – The Photographer’s Guide
Contracts
Content to be posted here shortly. For additional contract-related content, see ASMP’s Business + Legal Guide above.
Judicial Advocacy /Amicus Briefs
Legal News
Legal Clinic Videos On Demand
Purchase Legal Clinic #1: What Photographers Need to Know About Copyright (November 2019)
Purchase Legal Clinic #2: How to Write a License Agreement That is Effective (December 2019)
Purchase Legal Clinic #3: Rights of Privacy and Publicity for Photographers (January 2020)
Watch Legal Clinic #4 (Free): Photographers, Assistants, Employees and Contractors (February 2020)