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I'm in Australia, does anyone know how I can patent a photo?

I have an awesome photo I would like to patent and sell to a certain sports team, would appreciate the help, cheers.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    You cannot patent a work of art (which a photograph is). As the photographer you own the copyright. There are no special steps to take to 'create' that copyright. If, however, you sell a print or whatever of that picture, you should ensure that it bears the international copyright symbol © and your name. This will protect against unauthorised use.

    Source(s): Retired lawyer
  • 1 decade ago

    As mentioned you want to copyright a photo. Since you shot the image it is already copyrighted by you the moment you shot the image. Here is a link to copyright laws of the United States, which a lot of other countries also use these laws.

    Use it as a guide so you understand about copyright but you might need to contact somebody in Australia for more information.

    I also gave you a link about model releases because you will need that to go along with the photo you have if there are people in it which I think you might.

    http://www.copyright.gov/

    http://www.asmp.org/commerce/legal/releases/

    Hope this helps,

    Kevin

    Source(s): Professional Photographer
  • HK-boy
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    You cannot patent a photo. You protect your right by copyright, which is pretty much automatic in most countries.

  • 1 decade ago

    You cannot Patent a photograph but you can copyright it ask a publisher how you go about this ~~

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