Subjectright License Agreement

Preamble

Copyright includes rights to copy, modify and distribute the work.

The idea of Subjectright is for the Copyright holder to share exclusivity of these rights under terms and conditions with the Subject, so that the Subject can copy and distribute the work or properly attributed derivative works.

Due, in part, to changes in imaging technology, and advances in content distribution methods, Subjectright is necessary to acknowledge the fact that a portrait, picture, photographic work, or the like, is a joint effort made possible by the Subject, as well as the photographer or other person(s) operating the image acquisition equipment.

Especially in the academic and scientific community, there is a growing need for Subjectright, to reduce the burden on the Subject, where otherwise multiple but similar pictures of the same Subject must be produced over and over again in their entirety, each by a different competing organization, simply because of re-use of portions of previous Works being restricted by Copyright issues. Unlike traditional art forms such as painting and literary works, each of the aforementioned multiple but similar Works requires the participation of the Subject, and often, due to setup times, logistical management issues, etc., requires a greater time committment from the Subject than is really necessary. Duplication of essentially the same pictures simply because of Copyright, imposes an excessive burden, time committment, and workload on the Subject of the pictures.

Sharing of rights with the Subject, allows the Subject to spend more time in pursuit of other scientific endeavours in order to continue doing the research that is the very reason that pictures of the Subject are sought.

Subjectright and Copyright

NAME of Subjectright Licensee: ______________________________________
(your name, or name of photographer)

Company name and address (please print):

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NAME of Subjectright Licensor: ______________________________________
who is also the Subject.

Description of pictures containing Subjectright data: _______________________

Parties agree:

1. Licensor will participate in the production of pictures and/or provide material (collectively "Contribution), wherein Licensor may also be Contributor;
2. Contributor agrees that Licensee may use Contributor's name, likeness and biographical facts relating to the Contributor, as provided by the Contributor in the pictures;
3. Contributor grants nonexclusive worldwide rights in the Contribution to Licensee;
4. Licensee agrees to transfer of copyright in the Work to Subject; Subject in return grants a nonexclusive worldwide use to Licensee;
5. Licensee agrees that Subject will have nonexclusive worldwide rights to use material depicting Subject, and to allow others to use material depicting Subject, and to provide Subject access to original image source material;
6. Parties agree that this Agreement is the whole and only agreement between Licensee and Contributor, and shall be governed by Canadian law;
7. Parties agree that if the pictures will bear any kind of Copyright notice, that it must also bear a Subjectright notice to declare the Work as Subjectright (denoted as circle S, or "S" in parentheses), as indicated by "Subjectright (S) by.." (insert name of Licensor, being the Subject appearing in picture or other Work), and that it will also bear the logo and URL of the World Subjectrights Foundation, http://subjectrights.org if it bears any copyright notice.

Signatures:

(Licensee...........................................................Licensor)
          (Name & date)                               (Name & date)