Comment by tossaway0
14 days ago
So then a film project where no one is paid would need all operators to cede their copyright to the person spearheading the project, correct?
If employment is an exception, I wonder what would happen if an animal that you owned pressed the shutter on a camera.
Not paying anyone would be a violation of minimum wage laws. Or it would mean they are truly equal partners in the project who have no "employer" they are working under. In which case it does seem most fair that they would all own the copyrights to their contributions absent some other agreement to assign copyright.