New CCFC Site for Photos

Going Live Soon.

http://www.cardiffcitypics.co.uk/

Good luck with it mate, it looks a good site.

Nice to see I've made it into the top 12 top sellers

Ha ha, nice one Gezza! You and your bro should get one.

Going Live Soon.

http://www.cardiffcitypics.co.uk/

Can't view the site as it says "We are upgrading our system, please check back at a later time.
Thank you"

But if you are selling photos taken in the ground you need to be very carefull, and make sure you get the club accreditation otherwise its illiegal (check terms and condition on your match ticket)

Taking photos for personal pleasure and not accepting money is fine (as far as I'm aware) but charging is a different ball game

i post on the offical site and i no the club are making a photo site very soon as well. So like joncandy said you might want to be carefull

Going Live Soon.

http://www.cardiffcitypics.co.uk/

Can't view the site as it says "We are upgrading our system, please check back at a later time.
Thank you"

But if you are selling photos taken in the ground you need to be very carefull, and make sure you get the club accreditation otherwise its illiegal (check terms and condition on your match ticket)

Taking photos for personal pleasure and not accepting money is fine (as far as I'm aware) but charging is a different ball game

Jon you can't take photos at all inside a FL or PL stadium unless you've got a licence. However it is not a criminal offence to do so but merely part of the terms of entrance. If you do take photos without being stopped then those photos belong to you and no one else. If then someone offers money for those shots then that's between you and them. No one has the right to interfere with or take your camera away from you. They can throw you out but your property is your property. There is a law about photographing coppers but even this law is under review due to heavy handed coppers abusing it.
No photo agency will touch your photos though not just because they know you are not accredited but they'll get far better photos from the proper photographers at the match who each go there with around 25k worth of kit.
Another problem you might have selling photos when you are not accredited is with image rights. Suppose you sold a photo of a player for a lot of money, then without a signed model release form from that player then he could ask for a fee from you. Very unlikely but still plausible.

Going Live Soon.

http://www.cardiffcitypics.co.uk/

Can't view the site as it says "We are upgrading our system, please check back at a later time.
Thank you"

But if you are selling photos taken in the ground you need to be very carefull, and make sure you get the club accreditation otherwise its illiegal (check terms and condition on your match ticket)

Taking photos for personal pleasure and not accepting money is fine (as far as I'm aware) but charging is a different ball game

Jon you can't take photos at all inside a FL or PL stadium unless you've got a licence. However it is not a criminal offence to do so but merely part of the terms of entrance. If you do take photos without being stopped then those photos belong to you and no one else. If then someone offers money for those shots then that's between you and them. No one has the right to interfere with or take your camera away from you. They can throw you out but your property is your property. There is a law about photographing coppers but even this law is under review due to heavy handed coppers abusing it.
No photo agency will touch your photos though not just because they know you are not accredited but they'll get far better photos from the proper photographers at the match who each go there with around 25k worth of kit.
Another problem you might have selling photos when you are not accredited is with image rights. Suppose you sold a photo of a player for a lot of money, then without a signed model release form from that player then he could ask for a fee from you. Very unlikely but still plausible.

I'd agree pretty much with all of that

The purpose behind my photos is purely to share them with people who couldn't get to the match (for what ever reason), I never dreamt of selling my photos, I've passed them on to many people on this board for free via email, USB stick etc

The idea of setting a website where you pay for photos will obviously hit problems with copyright etc, thats what I'm trying to say

Going Live Soon.

http://www.cardiffcitypics.co.uk/

Can't view the site as it says "We are upgrading our system, please check back at a later time.
Thank you"

But if you are selling photos taken in the ground you need to be very carefull, and make sure you get the club accreditation otherwise its illiegal (check terms and condition on your match ticket)

Taking photos for personal pleasure and not accepting money is fine (as far as I'm aware) but charging is a different ball game

I imagine they are halftime waynes pics. as a club photographer this is surely a club based website.

They are half time Wayne's pics and the website is part of the CCFC official set up

They are half time Wayne's pics and the website is part of the CCFC official set up

If they are half time Wayne's shots then I suspect the only acreditation he'll have is the club's. Therefore the shots can only be used by the club or for club purposes.
The one thing you have to remember is the pro photographers that turn up there went to a hell of a lot of time and effort, not to mention money, to get in to that position. They do it for a living and if someone comes along who isn't properly acredited and eats in to their living then they are gonig to be a bit pissed off about it. Fans taking photos from the stand isn't going to bother them in the slightest but when they start going pitchside to take photos then that's when the trouble starts.