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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3640980, member: 19463"]This misses an important point. Photographers and all employees on staff for corporations often/usually have contracts built into their employment agreement that what they create (including photographs) on the job belongs to the employer. I took a lot of photographs in the time I was working for the US Government but not one of them is my property any more than they are of any US citizen. I worked for a Defense contractor who employed a man who accidentally invented the microwave oven by having a chocolate bar in his pocket. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Spencer" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Spencer" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Spencer</a></p><p>"For his invention, Spencer received no <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royalty_payment" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royalty_payment" rel="nofollow">royalties</a>, but he was paid a one-time $2.00 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratuity" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratuity" rel="nofollow">gratuity</a> from Raytheon, the same token payment the company made to all inventors on its payroll at that time for company patents."</p><p><br /></p><p>I strongly suspect that the unnamed photographers who work for big auction houses have similar clauses forfeiting rights to whatever they produce on the job. There are some such agreements that forbid an employee from producing the sort of thing they do on the job when they are not on the job. That would prevent someone from claiming he invented or produced something at home and not when covered by the 'on the job' rule. This also would allow someone to contract a photographer to take pictures for them and transfer all rights to all images taken. This needs to be spelled out in the agreement if you hire a photographer to shoot your coin collection, wedding, real property or even yourself. </p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect this is just one of a thousand ways most of us ignore the reasons we hire lawyers until after we discover we should have considered the matter more carefully.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3640980, member: 19463"]This misses an important point. Photographers and all employees on staff for corporations often/usually have contracts built into their employment agreement that what they create (including photographs) on the job belongs to the employer. I took a lot of photographs in the time I was working for the US Government but not one of them is my property any more than they are of any US citizen. I worked for a Defense contractor who employed a man who accidentally invented the microwave oven by having a chocolate bar in his pocket. [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Spencer[/URL] "For his invention, Spencer received no [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royalty_payment']royalties[/URL], but he was paid a one-time $2.00 [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratuity']gratuity[/URL] from Raytheon, the same token payment the company made to all inventors on its payroll at that time for company patents." I strongly suspect that the unnamed photographers who work for big auction houses have similar clauses forfeiting rights to whatever they produce on the job. There are some such agreements that forbid an employee from producing the sort of thing they do on the job when they are not on the job. That would prevent someone from claiming he invented or produced something at home and not when covered by the 'on the job' rule. This also would allow someone to contract a photographer to take pictures for them and transfer all rights to all images taken. This needs to be spelled out in the agreement if you hire a photographer to shoot your coin collection, wedding, real property or even yourself. I suspect this is just one of a thousand ways most of us ignore the reasons we hire lawyers until after we discover we should have considered the matter more carefully.[/QUOTE]
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