Very high price for using music

[Jad Meouchy]

Originally Posted by Steve House

That's why a wedding couple can't legally take the proofs from their wedding shoot into Costco and have reprints made to send to their family ... to do so would violate the photographer's copyright.

Not when it was done 'for hire'.

[Steve House]

Originally Posted by Jad Meouchy

Not when it was done 'for hire'.

Right, but it's not a 'work for hire' unless it's explicitly stated to be so in a written contract. Some people think the simple fact of the photographer having been paid automatically makes it a work for hire. It doesn't. The copyright on a work produced as an independent contractor still belongs to the contractor unless there's a writing to the contrary.