ABOUT

Graham Spillard is a Melbourne, Australia based photographer who's work has appeared in various publications worldwide including Rolling Stone, Who Weekly, Kerrang, Audio Technology, Guitarist Australia, Australian Guitar, Mojo, The Bulletin and Blunt. Grahams photos have been used by Fender, Martin and Takamine Guitars in the U.S and appeared on CD covers and sleeves worldwide. He has also worked extensively as an assistant to one of Australia's leading music photographer's the award winning Marty Philbey with whom he has worked with artists of the calibre of Paul Kelly, The Living End, Superheist, 28 Days, Nickleback,The Waifs, John Butler Trio and covered a magnitude of Music, Sporting and major events.

COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

I earn my living from producing and licensing rights to my photography. Copyright protection is essential to the creative process. We can never allow the images we produce to become public domain, so we must protect our interests. All photographs by Graham Spillard’s Spockman Photographics are the exclusive property of Graham Spillard and are protected under international copyright laws.

The photographs MAY NOT BE DOWNLOADED, reproduced, copied, stored, manipulated, projected, used or altered in any way, including without limitation any digitisation or synthesizing of the images, alone or with any other material, by use of computer or other electronic means or any other method or means now or hereafter known, without the written permission of Graham Spillard and payment of a fee or arrangement thereof. No images are within Public Domain. Use of any image as the basis for another photographic concept or illustration is a violation of copyright.

A copyright holder typically has exclusive rights:

to make and sell copies of the work (including, typically, electronic copies)
to import or export the work
to make derivative works
to publicly perform the work
to sell or assign these rights to others

What is meant by the phrase "exclusive right" is that the copyright holder and only the copyright holder is allowed to do these things; everyone else is prohibited from doing them without the copyright holder's consent.

Ownership of copyright

The 'author' is the first owner of copyright (Section 35(2) of the Copyright Act 1968. The 'author' of a photograph taken after 1 May 1969, (which is the date of the commencement of the present Act) is the person who took the photograph.

Graham SPILLARD

©Copyright Graham Spillard 2004. All rights reserved. Pictures on this web site are copyrighted and may not be used for any purpose without express written consent. Pricing and availability for stock use is available upon request.