On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Keith Whaley<[email protected]> wrote: > > Yessir. I agree with you. > It would seem to me, that in a court of law, the mere fact that he was HIRED > to make the image(s) automatically flips the ownership question to the > person who contracted with the photographer as being the owner of the > output. That's what the contractor paid for.
That's how it works in Canada, it's called 'Work for Hire'. IIRC it's common to all Commonwealth countries. But in the US unless the contract specifies it, the Photographer owns it. -Adam -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

