On 9/12/06, zero 0000 nought_0000@yahoo.com wrote:
I think there is a point you are missing. If I ask someone else to take a photo of me with my camera, then (if nothing is otherwise said) both of us normally assume that the photo and all its rights will be mine. Such a shared assumption can be considered an [[implicit contract]]. If so, an actual (not just imagined) transfer of copyright has occurred.
Zero (who knows nothing about it).
The problem with that argument is that copyright transfers, other than by operation of law, have to be in writing.
Anthony