[MOPO] Who owns the rights to a poster?

[Lynch Posters]

I was contacted by a distribution company today that is releasing two David
Lynch films on DVD for the foreign market. They enquired about using several
of the foreign posters on my website for either the cover, the insert or the
DVD extras.
This brought up the question of who owns the rights to a movie poster?
(Domestic posters, re-releases, foreign posters, re-issues, etc, etc....)
Who owns the rights to an image of a movie poster?
In the post NSS era, it seems obvious that the studio releasing the film,
likley commissioned the production and printing of the poster and would have
the rights to it. Examples of Disney posters and perhaps Miramax seem
relatively clear, especially with their small print disclaminers. But what
about the Polish version of "WIld At Heart" or the German A1 for "Lost
Highway"? What about my personal photograph of these poster?
Any thoughts?
Lynch Posters
Specializing in US and Foreign posters from the films of David Lynch.
www.LynchPosters.com


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From: Rod Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [MOPO] Queen of Scream
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 19:30:07 -0700
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