[cc-community] Licenses and law interaction.

Rob Myers rob at robmyers.org
Wed Oct 27 11:02:38 EDT 2010


On 10/27/2010 03:49 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> 1. Many countries have the notion of "work for hire", so eg if I hire you
> to take me a photograph I own the photograph.

That's true but an important detail is that in the US and the UK if you 
are an individual then merely hiring someone's services doesn't transfer 
the copyright to you, it goes to the photographer's employer (including 
if they are self-employed). You need to explicitly state that you as the 
client will hold the copyright on the photographs.

I mention this for when people come to book a wedding photographer. ;-)

- Rob.



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