What I meant to say was, that in Denmark you can't completely sign away your own rights. This goes for photographers, but also for tenants, customers etc. Jens Bladt
-----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Bob W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 15. august 2005 23:35 Til: [email protected] Emne: RE: The Photographer's Rights In the UK copyright is with the original author unless it is specifically signed away. There are some other minor exceptions which aren't relevant here. But English law absolutely does not give the copyright to the newspaper or magazine unless the freelancer has signed it away in a contract. Magnum would be out of business here if that were the case. I have recently been involved in a software copyright case, so a lot of this stuff is fresh in my memory. -- Cheers, Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: Jens Bladt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 15 August 2005 22:05 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: The Photographer's Rights > > The Anglo-American copyright legislation favourizes/protects > the rights of the businesses by giving the copyright to the > newspaper or magizine - even if a freelancer is the > photographer. The Scandinavian legislation seems to protect > the rights of the photographer/author, making it practically > impossible for him/her to totally give away his/her rights. > > I don't know if this is actually the case, but a PowerPoint > presentation that I downloaded from the Danish Journalist > Union says so. > I find this quiet interesting.
