From: wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Phil Boswell
Peter Mackay wrote:
Mmmm, but does requesting someone to take a photograph
actually give
you copyright over the resulting image? I don't think it
does, without
explicit assignment.
If you were on holiday and asked a passing random person to use your camera to take a picture of you, I suspect that you would be quite surprised were they to attempt to assert copyright over the picture.
That's quite true, as I've already noted. But even if they fade away and never claim copyright over the photograph they have just created, how can this give YOU the copyright? There has to be some explicit assignment of rights for the copyright to be transferred to a new owner.
--Peter