[BCMA] an archives question

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Unless the purchaser specifically purchased copyright as well, the photographer has the rights.  That is why some photographers actually stamp the back of the photograph with their copyright stamp.  If the purchaser wanted another print made, they had to go back to the photographer.
In your case, since the donor assigned copyright to the archives, you've got it not the purchaser.
In another case where the photographer was employed to take pictures such as a newspaper, you have to know the employment agreement as to who owns the copyright, the photographer or the newspaper.
Jim Millar
Manager/Curator
Port Moody Station Museum
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  Hello all: 

  A local town photographer donated over 50 years of photographs and negatives to our archives. Copyright of the collection was assigned to the archives at the time of donation. But a question has arisen. Some of the photographs are portraits of local residents. These are people who paid to have their photographs taken. In these cases who owns the rights to the photographs? Is it the archives, photographer or purchaser? 

   

  Thanks for your thoughts in advance.


  Ron Denman
  Director
  Chilliwack Museum and Archives
  45820 Spadina Avenue
  Chilliwack, BC V2P 1T3
  Phone: 604-795-5210; Fax: 604-795-5291
  www.chilliwack.museum.bc.ca



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