[Leica] National trust photography rules

[gwlists at aol.com (Gerry Walden)]

It is not just you Steve, and it has been this way for a very long time. 
  I no longer visit NT properties because of their attitude, and it not 
only applies to their building but also to their land. There have been 
cases, for instance, of photographers being stopped from photographing 
on Dartmoor! Strangely though they are keen to use photographs from 
'outside' when it suits them for their publications, and I have had one 
image published by them and paid for at the going rate.

Seems strange, but it does help sell guide books and postcards (,e 
cynical, never!)

Gerry
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Steve Unsworth wrote:

 > I went to a National Trust property in the UK the other day and had to
 > sign a document to obtain a photography permit. It was only when I got
 > home that I read it properly and found the following clauses...
 >
 > "I assign to the National Trust the entire copyright worldwide of
 > previously unpublished photographs for the full period of copyright and
 > all extensions and renewals of it, and confirm that the National Trust
 > shall be duly credited as owner of copyright."
 >
 > So it appears that I have signed away the copyright of anything I
 > photographed to the National Trust.
 >
 > Is it just me, or does this seem a little draconian?
 >
 > Steve

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