RE: [Leica] Photos on the Web

[Austin Franklin <austin@darkroom.com>]

Now there's a reason to move to Canada!  Always on the edge of societal evolution ;-)

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From: 	Dan Cardish
Sent: 	Friday, March 24, 2000 8:57 PM
To: 	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: 	RE: [Leica] Photos on the Web


I believe in Canada the copyright law has recently been changed such that
if you hire a photographer to take your photograph, the copyright goes to
you, not the photographer, unless agreed to differently in writing.

Dan C.

At 08:23 PM 24-03-00 -0500, Austin Franklin wrote:
>>  the 1978
>> copyright law which gives the copyright to the photographer 
>automatically.
>
>Most commercial shoots, at least all the ones I have done, the clients/reps 
>require me to sign over any and all rights to exclusive use of the 'work' 
>to them.  I have NO problem with that, since I am getting paid quite well 
>to do so.  I do retain the rights to use the 'work' for my own 
>promotion/portfolio etc. use (even, in some cases, photo 'contests')...but 
>I can not sell the images, nor do they have to ask me to use them.
>
>Personally, I think it's wrong that photographers retain the rights 
>automatically...since in EVERY other field, if you are paid to do the work, 
>the person paying you to do the work owns the rights.  That to me is just 
>common sense.  Rightly so, you WERE paid to do the work...and for some 
>bizarre reason, photographers don't live by this same rule.
>
>This is yet another issue in the vast issues that LUG seems to get involved 
>in...
>
>On the other hand, I got a new 50/1.4 today...and can't wait to try it out 
>this weekend!
>