Contributor Agreement

Version 3 · effective October 11, 2026

This agreement is between you (the photographer, "you") and Brooklyn Film Kamera LLC, doing business as Brooklyn Film Camera, 855 Grand St, Brooklyn NY 11211 ("BFC", "we"). You accept it once, the first time you submit. It covers everything you submit until we post a new version and you accept it.

1. What this covers. "Work" means any photo or video clip you submit. You choose which Work to submit, and for each one you tick the uses you allow: (a) social media and ads, (b) prints, (c) BFC Stock. We review each use separately and may decline any of them.

2. You keep the copyright. You own your Work. This agreement gives BFC a license to use it only as described here. Every license here is non-exclusive, so you can keep posting, selling or licensing your Work anywhere else.

3. Social media and ads. If you tick this box and we approve it, you give BFC a worldwide, royalty-free license to post, share and reproduce the Work on BFC's social media, website, emails, in-store displays and printed marketing, and in BFC's paid ads, including ads on social media, search and other websites. We may crop, resize or trim it to fit. We credit you by name or handle wherever the format allows. Some ad formats can't show a credit. This use is not paid.

4. Prints. If you tick this box and we approve it, you give BFC a license to sell physical prints of the photo through BFC's print shop, in the sizes and papers we offer. For each print sold you receive 50% of Net Revenue (section 6).

5. BFC Stock. If you tick this box and we approve it, you give BFC a license to list the Work in BFC Stock, our stock library, and to license it to third parties under the BFC Stock License Terms. For each license sold you receive 50% of Net Revenue. BFC sets and may change license prices and tiers. The BFC Stock License Terms forbid buyers from using anyone in your Work in the sensitive ways listed in our release.

6. Payment. "Net Revenue" means the price the buyer pays for a print or license, not counting sales tax or shipping, minus payment processing fees, refunds and, for prints, the cost of printing and packaging. We pay through Stripe each month once you're owed $25 or more, and a month's earnings are paid by the end of the following month. Before your first payment you must give us your payout details and a W-9 (US) or W-8 (outside the US). You're responsible for your own taxes, and we report payments as the law requires.

7. People in your Work. If anyone in your Work is recognizable, enter their name and email when you submit, or a parent's or guardian's email for anyone under 18. We email them our release. You can't sign it for them. Until a release is signed:

  • Adults: we may post the Work on our social media and license it through BFC Stock for editorial use only (news, magazines, books). It doesn't go in ads or prints.
  • Anyone under 18: we don't use the Work at all.

Work showing anyone under 18 is never offered in BFC Stock, even with a signed release. If a person declines the release, or later withdraws, we take the Work down under section 9. You don't need permission for places. If we need it for a particular place, we'll ask the owner ourselves.

8. Your promises. You confirm that:

  • you shot the Work yourself, on film or tape, not on a phone or digital camera
  • it isn't copied from anyone else
  • you have the right to grant these licenses
  • anyone recognizable in it is OK with being in it
  • the names and emails you give us for people in your Work are accurate
  • for any clip with sound, you own the sound or have permission to use it

If you're not sure about the sound, tell us and we'll use the clip without it.

9. Taking Work down. You can ask us to remove any Work from any use at any time, from your Contributor Program page or by email. Within 30 days we stop new posts, ads, sales and licenses, and remove it from our accounts and site. Prints already sold, licenses already granted, and posts other people have shared stay in place.

10. Credit and edits. We may crop, resize, trim and lightly adjust color to fit a format. We won't otherwise alter your Work or present it as someone else's.

11. AI. BFC will never use your Work to train artificial intelligence. The BFC Stock License Terms forbid buyers from using it to train artificial intelligence.

12. Ending this agreement. Either of us can end this agreement with written notice, and email counts. Section 9 then applies to all your Work. Sections 6 (for money already earned), 8 and 13 continue.

13. Responsibility. If your Work breaks a promise in section 8 and someone makes a claim against BFC, you agree to cover BFC's reasonable costs from that claim. BFC's total liability to you under this agreement is limited to the amounts we owe you under section 6.

14. Changes. We may update this agreement. We'll post the new version and ask you to accept it before your next submission. Work already approved stays under the version you accepted.

15. Law. New York law governs this agreement.

Questions: hello@brooklynfilmcamera.com