Some of my pictures are published in a local newspaper and I may need them again for another project.
2007-04-23 16:13:58 · 6 answers · asked by jariana42 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
The pictures are digital files that I have on my pc at home. I email the photos to the editors when they need them.
2007-04-23 16:22:52 · update #1
Typically the person who took the picture owns the copyright. There is an exception where the photographer is an employee of a newspaper, and then the picture is deemed to be owned by the newspaper. Also, if you assigned the copyright to the newspaper, they own it.
Copyright is secured automatically when the work is created, and a work is “created” when it is fixed in a copy or phonorecord for the first time. “Copies” are material objects from which a work can be read or visually perceived either directly or with the aid of a machine or device, such as books, manuscripts, sheet music, film, videotape, or microfilm. “Phonorecords” are material objects embodying fixations of sounds (excluding, by statutory definition, motion picture soundtracks), such as cassette tapes, CDs, or LPs. Thus, for example, a song (the “work”) can be fixed in sheet music (“copies”) or in phonograph disks (“phonorecords”), or both. If a work is prepared over a period of time, the part of the work that is fixed on a particular date constitutes the created work as of that date.
The use of a copyright notice is no longer required under U.S. law, although it is often beneficial. Because prior law did contain such a requirement, however, the use of notice is still relevant to the copyright status of older works.
I think you probably own the copyright.
2007-04-23 16:45:37 · answer #1 · answered by Mark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The picture is owned by copy right by the person who took it.. You may not reproduce it at all and have to ask for written permission to do so.. Call them and ask where you can pick them up, and that you want them back..
If they are pictures you drew, you own them and they must return them..
2007-04-23 16:21:55 · answer #2 · answered by tiny b 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well i guess if you sue them you will never get paid work from them. What's that about the images being free though? Did they simply fail to credit you? you weren't planning on being paid though?
2016-04-01 04:29:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should try giving copies. Have they denied retuning them?
2007-04-23 16:17:15 · answer #4 · answered by anton t 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did they pay you for the pictures.and have you tried getting copies
2007-04-23 17:37:56 · answer #5 · answered by goodins2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask for copies.
2007-04-23 16:17:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋