Hi all,
My wife is a watercolor painter.
Somebody wanted to use one of her nude waterpaintings on a catalog for her beauty and fitness saloon. Of course she will be using the photograph of the painting, not the painting itself.
Question: Who has the rights to the photograph of the painting? The painter or the photographer? (This question is only technical for this case, but what happens if I go and photograph a painting from any exhibiton?)
Regards, Veli Izzet
In the US the photographer has the rights to the photograph, but your wife should have a contract with the photographer which specifies what the photographer may do with the photograph. If the photographer does not offer a contract, draw one up yourself and insist on negotiating it with the photographer. If that photog won't negotiate, find another photog.
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Emily L. Ferguson
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New England landscapes, wooden boats and races, press photography http://www.vsu.cape.com/~elf/
