Photography Services Agreement
(Granting Magazine Limited License to Publish Photographs)

Summary

This template is a photography services agreement between a magazine and photographer. It includes a purchase order and estimate for a photography assignment and grants a limited license to the magazine for the first-time worldwide publication rights of the photographs resulting from the assignment. This template includes practical guidance and drafting notes. While this agreement grants the magazine a limited license to publish the photographs, a magazine might instead wish to purchase all rights in the photographs (e.g., if it plans to use one of the photographs on the cover of a forthcoming issue). For a sample agreement of this nature, see Photography Services Agreement (Magazine Cover Photograph) (Pro-Magazine). For guidance on the involved copyright issues, see the practice note Works Made for Hire.