Reactie Jo Mills

Dear Jan

I gather from Cristina, my cellar door manager, that you were a bit confused when she requested that you sign a photography release, so I thought that I would get in touch and just clarify our position on this. I have attached a news document that explains problems that we have had in the past with the misuse of images taken of Rippon and hopefully this will have you understand why we do request that all visitors to the vineyard - journalists, wine writers and professional photographers – sign a property release. The gist of the release simply requests that we are contacted prior to the use of photos for commercial purposes. We do not exert a charge for the use of our photographs, we just ask that we are contacted before photographs taken on our land are used and to ensure that the pictures are correctly attributed as being those of Rippon Vineyard and Winery. Again, the attached article should explain why we ask this of people – there is nothing sinister in this, we just wish to retain the dignity and integrity of our view and image.

If you are planning only to use the photographs for your website, this is fine – if you anticipate using it further, I would request that you do sign a copy of the photography release (a copy of which I can email to you) and perhaps scan it back to me – I hope you understand the reasoning behind this.

Kind regards

Jo Mills

Rippon Vineyard & Winery

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