on 14/10/03 2:13 pm, Bob Croxford wrote: > > What many photographers who confuse ownership of film with copyright is > that photographers are not selling bits of film but the copyright of > the image on the film. You can sell a right of reproduction and not the > physical film. As Ian points out this is enshrined in law.
Bob I wasn't confusing the two. Nathan's mail said that the photographer who worked on the job with him was asking to have the negs returned to him. What I was trying to say was that irrespective of copyright ownership of the image, the actual piece of plastic containing the image would belong to Nathan if he had bought the film in the first place. Same situation for ownership of a compact flash card if it had been shot digitally (still desperately trying to bring the tread back to list guidelines). Steve =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
