Re: Copyright Clarification Anyone?

Bottom line is the photographer owns ALL rights to the photographs he takes.
Unless he spcifically transfers these rights the owner of the photos has
only the rights to the photos he has.  Typically the right of reproduction
is held in reserve.    The owner can do anything he wants with the pictures
he has, but reproducing them is probably not one of them.  All of this is
dependent on what the original agreement was.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lisa Buckalew <jlt(at)gbsias.com>
To: Graphics Mailing List <hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
Date: Sunday, January 18, 1998 6:41 PM
Subject: Copyright Clarification Anyone?


>Hi All,
>
>I've been lurking here for a while and thank you all for *many* answered
>questions.  I hope this is the right place to post this question.
>
>My client hired a photographer to take pictures of himself and his race
>car. He bought all of the pictures.  He now wishes to add them to his
>web site and use some of them on a hard copy promotion. He's asked me to
>make some minor modifications on them to incorporate them into these
>projects.  Am I stepping on the photographers copyright here?  The
>client owns the pictures and they are of him and his property.  Can
>someone clarify this for me?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Lisa

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