Lucinda Graves
IP lawyer
Sharp; copyright is enforceable when documented
Uncredited
Yaw’s sunset photo is on a billboard, with someone else’s name on it. He learns copyright and licensing, wins a fair payment without a costly lawsuit, and realises his hobby might be worth more than he thought.
Planned · not started yet
Arts, crafts & creative work Ethics & integrity Money under pressure City life Bracing Lightly witty
The premise
Yaw’s sunset photo is on a billboard, with someone else’s name on it. He learns copyright and licensing, wins a fair payment without a costly lawsuit, and realises his hobby might be worth more than he thought.
The protagonist
Yaw Salgado-Tremaine — Amateur photographer in Melbourne whose image appears in an advert
The council
Every council member is an original fictional character. None represents, quotes or is endorsed by a real person.
Ravi Nandakumar
professional photographer
Commercial; licensing is how photographers earn
Bettina Holm
picture editor
Insider; explains how images are bought
How the story moves
From discovery to settlement, then the beginning of a paid practice; his second licence negotiation shows what he learned.
What readers take away
- How copyright arises automatically
- Moral rights
- Licensing models and terms
- Proving ownership and metadata
- Responding to infringement
- Creative Commons licences
- Pricing licences
- Protecting work online
- Register metadata and watermarking
- Calculate a licence fee
- Use takedown procedures
- Set terms for commissions
The books
- 1The billboard Planned
- 2The letter Planned
- 3The settlement Planned
- 4The licence Planned
Book titles are working titles and may change before publication. No book is on sale until the complete series is finished, checked and released.