Subject: RE: [thelist] copyrights and linking

[Robert Goodyear]

It would be interesting to find out if she was a true employee or working on a
contract, (as is often the case in Journalism) since, unless I read it wrong,
she was working for them for only 2 months.

If she was a contract freelencer or stringer, the law stipulates -- uhhh...
well, US law anyways -- that there needed to be an EXPLICIT statement in her
contract in re work-for-hire. Only if she was truly a payroll employee do the
rights automatically transfer to the employer. Short of that, the images are
actually hers.

Robert Goodyear
http://www.westeye.com


--- "James S. Huggins (Evolt)" <Evolt at ZName.com> wrote:
>
> ===========================
> One should not be linking to anothers website to show ones photos.
> Instead one should have copies of the images on ones own website.
> ===========================
>
> Alas, in the case that began this discussion, they are not "her" photos.
>
> Although she was the photographer, the "rights" to the photos, the ownership
> of the photos, belongs to her former employer.
>
> It would be a violation of copyright to place copies of the digital formats
> of those photos onto her server and to link them "in line" on her website.
>
> That is, unless she could obtain permission.
>
> And, her former employer appears to have denied such permission.
>
>
>
> James S. Huggins
>


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