If someone offered you a large sum of money for the copy right on all your images, would you accept?
If someone offered you a large sum of money for the copyright on all your images, would you accept?
If someone offered you a large sum of money for the copyright on all your images, would you accept?
If someone offered you a large sum of money for the copyright on all your images, would you accept?
If someone offered you a large sum of money for the copyright on all your images, would you accept?
There is statistically more chance I will win The National Lottery, be murdered, or run over by a bus than the situation you describe arising, so in either case I wouldn't need the money.
Copyright is one word, not two (very different meanings for either).
To answer the intended question, no. A number of photographers who have left the profession here in Australia have re-assigned copyright of their work (either part or life) for a sum, but once the work has gone, the new owner can put his or her own name to the work additional to claiming it as his own. This is what I have seen and which I cannot reasonably agree to on ethical, moral, professional or financial grounds. How morally or ethically sound is it if you sell your daughter or son for a fee, and somebody else takes full control of naming, paternity, future outlook etc.?
In the UK, copyright and moral rights are separate things. Selling copyright does not impart moral rights so the purchaser is required to acknowledge my authorship.Copyright is one word, not two (very different meanings for either).
To answer the intended question, no. A number of photographers who have left the profession here in Australia have re-assigned copyright of their work (either part or life) for a sum, but once the work has gone, the new owner can put his or her own name to the work additional to claiming it as his own. This is what I have seen and which I cannot reasonably agree to on ethical, moral, professional or financial grounds. How morally or ethically sound is it if you sell your daughter or son for a fee, and somebody else takes full control of naming, paternity, future outlook etc.?
Yes, for a reasonable sum (although I'm not sure how much is "reasonable"). More problematic would be a deal for the copyright of future work. Didn't Annie Liebovitz do something like this?
Yes, for a reasonable sum (although I'm not sure how much is "reasonable"). More problematic would be a deal for the copyright of future work. Didn't Annie Liebovitz do something like this?
yes i too believe she did
More accurately, she assigned the benefit of (a portion of) future royalties in order to avoid bankruptcy.
Sort of like agreeing to have your future wages garnisheed.
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