WRONG!!!!
Work for hire is when you are an employee of the
people who you are working for. As a simple rule of thumb,
if they are not paying you wages and taking out taxes you
are not doing work for hire. Short of a written agreement
otherwise that is the only way they could prove you were
doing work for hire. And even then photography would
almost need to be part of your job discription.
Other than that the only way you can give up your copyright
is by signing an agreement to do so.
Of course, outside the US the laws may be different, but
most civilised countries are signaturies of the inter-
national agreement.
--Tom
William Robb wrote:
>
> While I am not an international copyright expert, my
> understanding of copyright law is that in a work for hire
> situation (which means if you get paid to take the pictures with
> some sort of sitting fee), then the first owner of the copyright
> is the person paying for the work, unless you have a clause in
> your contract specifying otherwise.
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