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Insurance and releases for a studio

Insurance and releases for a studio

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Insurance and releases for a studio

- Whether your studio's in a fixed location, or something you're carrying around, you've got a bunch of really expensive gear associated with it, so obviously, that gear needs to be insured. You want to check with your insurance company to find out the particulars of what kind of policy you need for that, but also if you've got a fixed location studio, as I mentioned in the last movie, you're going to have a lot of people coming through it, so be sure and check with your insurance company about whether you and the other people that are coming into your studio are properly covered. There's another legal concern, though, when you're shooting people and things in your studio. Just because it's your studio doesn't mean you have the right to show images of the things or people that you're shooting there. You still need releases. You need releases for people, you need releases for brands, all sort of things that might be coming through your studio even though you own the location, doesn't…

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