Customized Texas Photo Contracts
Alicia Calzada was a professional photographer for 20 years before becoming a media law attorney in 2011. She knows what professional photographers need and how to protect their work.
Contracts That Protect Your Business and Build Lasting Relationships
As a former professional photographer, Alicia Wagner Calzada understands the challenges freelancers and small-business photographers face. Her philosophy is that a contract is part of your customer’s experience with you and is an important part of your relationship with your customers. A good contract protects your rights, but a great contract protects relationships. It anticipates the questions that will come up with your customers in six months, a year, or ten years, and resolves those issues in advance.
During her 20-year career as a photojournalist, including her tenure as president and advocacy chair of the National Press Photographers Association, Alicia found herself advocating for photographers’ rights. Her passion for First Amendment and copyright issues led her to transition into law, where she has spent 14 years as an attorney representing a wide range of media companies, news organizations, photographers, and trade organizations, including the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), where she advocates for photographers’ rights, and helps shape key federal and state legislation.
The Essentials photo contract kits are flat-fee legal services, born of her commitment to support professional photographers like you. Designed for real-world challenges that Alicia knows well, the kits provide you with customized contracts to give you piece of mind – whether you are just starting out or strengthening existing contracts.
The Legal Essentials Every Texas Photographer Needs
Your business is built on relationships, so the right kind of communication about your policies, through your contracts, preserves those relationships for years to come.
The Essentials Kit
$1200
One customized Texas photo agreement tailored to your business needs, clients, and location
One custom model release tailored to your business needs
Includes an introductory call, subsequent necessary follow-up calls, and attorney time, as needed, to finalize the contract
Additional hours of legal advice are available at reduced hourly rate of $250/hour
The Essentials Plus+ Kit
$1800
Two customized Texas photo agreements - (e.g., wedding contract and portrait contract). Useful when you have multiple lines of business
Includes an introductory call, subsequent necessary follow-up calls, and attorney time, as needed, to finalize the contract
One custom model release tailored to your business needs
Two extra hours of attorney consultation time within 6 months of purchase - use for copyright concerns, contract questions, or client disputes (subject to conflict check)
5 Things
That Matter
in a Photo Contract
1) Copyright/licensing
terms
2) Limitation of liability
3) Jurisdictional clauses
4) Cancellation policy
/ force majeure
5) Artificial intelligence policies/drone policies
Alicia creates specific-to-your-business contracts with these safeguards and more so you can focus more on your craft and less on legal worries.