Digital BW, The Print

jnhugo wrote:

>
>If you are hired as a freelance agent then you are producing a work 
>for hire 
>product for the people who hired you
>

In the US that is true ONLY if they explicitly or by direct reference 
incorporate the term "work-for-hire" in a written contract.  Can't tell 
you how many clients forget to do that.. I let them write the final 
contract up and simply review the terms. When they do forget it, I don't 
cut them a break (except in the rarest of circumstances where I may lose 
a large recurring contract), since the rule of law is "ambiguity goes 
against the drawer."  In such cases, I make sure I register the 
copyright immediately after the shoot.

AND, I can always use the extra cash that comes from selling them back 
the copyright.. LOL

Under copyright law, by actual definition, a photographer is an artist 
not a technician. Don't let anyone convince you otherwise.. When you do 
so, it lessens your inherent $$ value.

 
Keith Krebs

"Just some guy," caretaker of the Multiverse's largest EPSON printer 
User Community (highly recommended by Vogon Poets and MegaDodo 
Publications), at:
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"For the rest of you out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together 
guys"