Jens Bladt wrote:
The Anglo-American copyright legislation favourizes/protects the rights of
the businesses by giving the copyright to the newspaper or magizine - even
if a freelancer is the photographer.
Here in the USA, this is only true if the freelancer signs a
work-for-hire agreement.
To the best of my knowledge, and my experience has been, without such an
agreement, as a freelancer I own my images and if someone wants to
publish them, they have to pay me for one-time publication.
Even if they asked me to go take the pictures in the first place, if
they run it again in a later issue they have to pay me again.
IANAL and therefore am not comfortable getting into the full legal-eagle
discussion of copyright law, but that can probably be found on the web
site of the National Press Photographers' Association, if you are curious.
ERNR
