I think the general anglo-saxon legal position is that, if you were
"hired", the copyright for the photos belong to the employer.
If you sell the pictures to them, it depends on your sale conditions: 1-
time? exclusive?
Tom
On Wednesday, May 29, 2002 at 20:14, Henry Bottjer-BA
<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote re "RE: [OM] Re: Today a good day for m" saying:
> >On Friday 24 May 2002 09:00 am, you wrote:
> > Ecxellent. Only time I was ever published with a credit was my college
> > newspaper. Took some shots of the lacross team in action. The paper
> liked
> > them so much the reprinted the next year without the credit. Oh well.
> > Funny thing - I'm still using the same OM-1n today (and I went to college
> > in the late 80's!)
>
> >Ok, the same thing happens here with my school paper. First time they are
> >published, the pictures are credited. Any time after that they are 'file
> >photos'. Kind of pisses me off, but i do steal my negatives back. After
> >they're scanned the editors i've dealt with can't be trusted to even file
> >them.
>
> So is this common practice? I've never tried to be published but it would
> be nice to think I could. Once the paper (or magazine or whatever) has the
> photo it's considered theirs?
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