On 9/12/06, Anthony <wikilegal inbox.org> wrote:
> Copyright law has rules for such situations where more
than one person
> has put creative interest into a work. There are two
possibilities -
> it is a work for hire or there is a joint copyright. I
don't think
> such an unpaid scenario would qualify as a work for
hire so more
> likely there would be a joint copyright.
>
Actually, there's a third possibility also - that there are
two
independent works, one of which is a derivative of the
other, and
therefore two independent copyrights. However, this
scenario is
clearly not an example of a work and derivative work, as the
scene was
not put into fixed form until the photo was snapped.
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