The manual “Basiswissen” (Basic Knowledge) provides an overview of the most important practical questions repeatedly facing freelance photographers during the course of their career. In particular for newcomers to the profession it conveys precisely the knowledge they require when starting out as self-employed photographers if they wish to avoid taking the wrong decisions and unnecessary pitfalls. But the manual can also be useful as a reference book for photographers who have already been self-employed for quite some time.
Written in easily-understandable language and clearly structured, the manual addresses the following topics:
_ Starting up a business
_ Legal comments on using the internet
_ Cooperation with advertising agencies and picture editors_
_ Cooperation with representatives and stock photo agencies
_ Participating in photography competitions
_ Entering into and executing contracts
_ Accounts receivable management
_ Photographers‘ copyright
_ The right to a photographer‘s own image and rights to the subject of the image
_ Calculating photography fees
_ Recognition as a freelance photographer (artist)
_ Taxes and accounting
_ ArtistsÅf social security insurance and other types of insurance
The editor of the manual, Dr. Wolfgang Maassen, is an attorney at law and specialist attorney for copyright and media law. He is legal adviser to the BFF Bund Freischaffender Foto-Designer.
4
th fully-revised and extended edition
approx. 360 pages, format 23 x 23 cm, ISBN 978-3-933989-43-7
The manual is only available in the German language.
€ 58,-... place your order hereThe new book will be appearing in May 2010 and will be delivered then.
