As the times have impacted technological advances, it affects growth in many fields,
including photography. As far as the rights on a photograph is concerned, a
photographer, as a copyright holder, possesses executive, moral and economic rights
in regard to the photograph he/she produces. However, photographers often overlook
the fact that a photographed subject also possesses a right in regard to the
photograph. Photographers often edit their photographs without obtaining prior
consent or permission from their photographed subjects, when in fact the working
relation between a photographer and a photographed subject binds them to an
obligation. The writer is thus interested in writing a thesis on the legal position of
photographed subject in regard to altered photograph based on the Law No. 28 of
2014 on Intellectual Properties. This thesis employs normative law approach as it
focuses on positive legal norms and formal regulations. Secondary data is obtained
by conducting interviews with a photographers and a staff of the Ministry of Law and
Human Rights, while the source of the primary is Law No. 28 of 2014 on Intellectual
Properties. This thesis concludes that the a photographer, as the copyright holder of
a photograph, cannot alter a photograph without prior consent of the photographed
subject. A photographed subject of an altered photograph, whether the result of the
alteration is satisfactory or not, has the right to terminate the working relation with
the photographer; for instance by not paying for the service.