The copyright always belongs to the creator. Full stop. What you may have agreed with your employer is that they have all rights of reproduction in your work. Unless work is created by more than one person, as in Lennon and MacCartney, it is not possible to easily split ownership. The law is quite clear on this. If copyright and authorship was transferrable it would be possible for others to claim they took your pictures. This is not possible in law.
Freelancers do not have automatic transfer of their rights of reproduction as you may have in your contract of employment. They would need to sign a contract to transfer their repro rights.
Bob Croxford
On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 01:56 pm, Steve Bradshaw wrote:
Ian maintains that unless agreed up front, that copyright belongs to the
freelancers. Now if Ian is correct that has serious implications for studios
like us (of which there are many, some on this list). I'm not a legal
expert, so if anyone who is would like to comment....
Steve
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