Copyright On Photographs
There has been a lot of buzz about the Obama image titled ‘Hope ‘ designed by Shepard Fairey, a Los-Angeles based street artistbased on a photograph taken by Manny Garcia while working on a contract basis for the Associated Press. So since it was taken by the photographer while being employed by someone, it will be considered a work for hire and the employer owns the copyright to the photograph, unless the photographer specifically retained the copyrights in writing or the employed assigned the rights over to the photographer. In this case Garcia had no problem with Fairey using the photograph but the copyright owner,...
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