I’ve generally been against giving AI works copyright, but this article presented what I felt were compelling arguments for why I might be wrong. What do you think?

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    1 year ago

    If he had deliberately caused the monkey to take that photo, he might have owned the copyright.

    If you pay a photographer to take photos at your wedding, you own the copyright for those photos - not the photographer.

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        Generally, photographers do not like to offer their services to clients through a Work for Hire Agreement

        Sure, you can have a different contract. However the default contract, if you pay someone to do a thing, is a “Work For Hire” agreement. That’s what the legal status of the photos will be if there was no contract signed and you just said “i’ll pay you a hundred bucks to take a photo”.

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      If you deal with the photographer that you own the images from the wedding and that’s in the contract, yeah. Otherwise, traditional copyright law would apply, and the photographer gets the rights.