On 9/12/06, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
Copyright law has rules for such situations where more than one person has put creative interest into a work. There are two possibilities - it is a work for hire or there is a joint copyright. I don't think such an unpaid scenario would qualify as a work for hire so more likely there would be a joint copyright.
Actually, there's a third possibility also - that there are two independent works, one of which is a derivative of the other, and therefore two independent copyrights. However, this scenario is clearly not an example of a work and derivative work, as the scene was not put into fixed form until the photo was snapped.