I was arguing with someone about a copyright question. . .

[Vegito]

i paid for mine and i had to put in my contract that i own the negatives and allow to use them for myself..

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Rebasxer
That's silly, it seems to me that if you pay for something, you should have the rights to it, ie if you buy a painting, you have control over how its reproduced, not the artist.

you couldent be more wrong

 

Originally posted by: Rebasxer
That's silly, it seems to me that if you pay for something, you should have the rights to it, ie if you buy a painting, you have control over how its reproduced, not the artist.

right, go buy a painting, get it scanned and reproduced. see where it gets ya.

while you're at it buy a bunch of music, reproduce it, and sell it (if you have the rights to it, you can sell it right?)

when i was working for a newspaper, there were several occasions where professional photographers threatened to sue because we published professional taken photographs online (there's an "ACT" covering in print publication as long as credit is given...but it doesn't cover online)

 

[Pepsei]

oh yeah, i believe if you have the negative, that means you have the right to make copies.

in Taiwan we got our wedding photos done by a studio and they hand over all the negatives. actually they took like 100's of pictures but we only got 35 negatives as they are the ones we picked/purchased to be in the book. It was very funny seeing the photographer trying to communicate with my wife as the only english word he knows was "yoo-hoo", "lady" and "hello". I have to do massively bad translation on the fly to my wife.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Kenazo
Walmart even has signs up saying they won't reprint copywritten wedding pics.

Yup, who knows if they follow that policy though. I've never had anyone question me when I've gotten our wedding photos printed at Costco. Like I said though, we have the rights... it'd just be a pain to bring the contract in and show them that.

 

[LordMorpheus]

Yes. Unless the contract you sign gives you full rights to the images, it is illegal for you to copy them.

My mom is a high-end wedding/portrait photographer in St. Louis. Over the past 10 years consumer-scanners have forced her to be constantly adjusting her prices just to stay in business, and now with cheap high-end digital cameras available every yahoo with a grand to blow on equipment calls himself a photographer and talks his friends into letting him do the wedding, or even worse advertises himself as a photographer. Fairly often now you get random people getting into weddings with Canon Digital Rebels or Nikon D70's taking pictures of the cermony and then trying to undercut the photographer on prices. Fortunatly the person taking the picture matters more than the camera so these wannabes just embarass themselves, but its definatly made the business market much much less friendly. My mom has adopted a new price list where the customer gets rights to the images, and full quality digital copies. This way they actually have to buy what they'd have stolen anyway.