Re: Copyright Clarification Anyone?

Yes, this would be a copyright infringement for the own of the negatives.
Although your client purchased the photographs from the photographer, unless
specified in the sale of the photographs, your client does not own the
rights to reproduce the photographs in any form. This includes scanning them
to be used in hard copy or on the internet.

I am an amateur photography who has taken and sold many racing photographs.
Those that I have sold to magazines and newspapers specify in the contract
with the publisher where the photos may be reproduced and the editions that
they may be published. I own the copyrights on the photos and the negatives.
If your client received the negatives with the sale, then he would have to
right to use them as many times and where ever he desires. This would
include making modifications to the images.

Jo Nell Fulwiler
fulwiler(at)dallas.net
http://www.dallas.net/fulwiler
ICQ UIN 189846
IRC Dalnet #COPINGwithPAIN
-----Original Message-----
From: Lisa Buckalew <jlt(at)gbsias.com>
To: Graphics Mailing List <hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
Date: Sunday, January 18, 1998 6:31 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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