DEED FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS

YOUR IMAGES, YOUR TERMS.

Every shoot licensed in writing, every image on record, and every unlicensed use turned into an invoice.

THE SITUATION

A photographer sends a gallery, the client picks the shots, and the invoice gets paid. Somewhere in that flow the licence, the model release and the credit line either exist or do not, and usually do not.

The images live on the internet forever. So do the arguments about who could use them, how, for how long, and whether reposting them at scale counted as fair use or free advertising.

THE RISKS

WHAT BREAKS.

01
NO LICENCE, WIDE USE
A shoot delivered for a website ends up in national advertising with no extra fee.
02
MISSING MODEL RELEASE
A great portrait becomes unusable commercially because nobody countersigned.
03
STOLEN WORK ONLINE
Images scraped, cropped, reposted and monetised, with the photographer paid nothing.
04
CLIENT AS AUTHOR
Contracts that assign copyright to the client and quietly strip your portfolio rights.
05
AI TRAINING
Datasets ingesting your archive without permission or attribution.
HOW DEED HELPS

FOUR STEPS.

01DROP

Upload the shoot brief, the contract and the model list.

02EXAMINE

Deed flags missing releases, dangerous copyright clauses and portfolio limits.

03EXECUTE

Contracts and releases signed in one link, licences delivered with the gallery.

04DEFEND

Reverse image tracking, takedowns and licence offers when your work turns up somewhere new.

QUESTIONS
+Can I keep portfolio rights on client work?
Yes. Deed reads client contracts and inserts portfolio and self promotion carve outs by default, so your work can still show up in your own book.
+What is the fastest way to get paid for stolen use?
Drop the infringing URL. Deed builds the case file, drafts a demand and offers the user a paid licence or a takedown.
+How do model releases work through Deed?
The subject verifies their email and signs from any device. The release is attached to the shoot record and travels with the images.

START A DEED.