[ Closed ] Photos used for promo...

It wasn't my photograph, but I did receive a copy of a Netherlands publication (which I can't read for the most part) but it appears to be a listing of musical performances for several different clubs. It was from when Joe was on tour in Europe in 2005, and Tony B was nice enough send it to me. Anyway, the photo for Joe's upcoming show was one of Garth's photographs! What was also very cool was the first sentence below the photograph, which read: "'Have you told anyone about Joe Bonamassa today?' is de slogan van de Bonamassa-fansite." I thought that was pretty cool...

The way the copyright policy reads, Joe and Premier do have rights over the images, but the photographer still maintains the creative copyright. It's rather complicated, but the simple fact is - we don't own Joe's image rights, but we do own rights to our photos as creative product.

Hard to explain all the technicalities of how it all works, but my resident attorney at BC took a look at it for me a and that's what she's come up with. Again, this is one attorney's view of the situation.

The big thing to remember is that none of us should be looking to make money off of photos we take or recordings we make of the Joe Bonamassa Band. As long as no one is doing that, we're all okay. And websites looking to use images we've taken should, out of professional courtesy, ask the photographer's permission and attribute the images accordingly.