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.
Many people are in the habit of acquiring pictures in this manner : I don't suppose there can be more than a handful who would ever even contemplate this scenario as more than a mental exercise, and if there is a single one who would consider forcing said passer-by to sign something forfeiting copyright, they would rightly be judged a lunatic.
HTH HAND