Shyrell Melara <shyrellmelara@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Veli Izzet Cigirgan" >>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 > > > The one who takes the photograph owns the rights. If the fitness center > takes it, it is theirs. If you or your wife takes the picture, it belongs > to you. Then you can sell it for a one time publishing right. Unless you > live outside the USA. Then I don't know those laws. In any case, get a > contract. In general, a photograph of a painting would be a derivative work under copyright law, and copyright ownership would by default be shared. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b@xxxxxxxx>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com/> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/> <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>
