Press Association

[langara]

Hi I don't know if anyone can help me, today my husband was asked to take some photographs of the Queen on a private visit to a club in Norfolk.
We have just had two phone calls, one from the Daily Express and one from the Press association asking for copy's of the photographs, we have no idea what to do next, as they want them for tomorrow's paper. Anyway know if this legal.

[bert_h]

Private visit = private photographs. The papers are trying it on, and they don't care how much trouble it might get you into.

[langara]

Thanks bert that settles it.

[boxtops]

They are your photographs, your copyright. If they want them they can pay you well for them - but as bert says, it was a private visit, the Queen might not want it in the Press.

[Buenchico]

The club (not the Queen) has the right to restrict photography but, as Boxtops has said, the copyright in a photograph belongs to the photographer (other than when it's taken in the course of his employer's business). So your hubby is free to sell the rights.

I'd jump at the chance!

[trt]

Who asked your husband to take photos, and how did they get your tel number?

[Ken4155]

I think that if your husband was commissioned to take the photographs, then the copyright would surely belong to whoever paid him. If he is freelance, then he may do with them as he so wishes. That is as i understand it.

[Quizmonkey]

IP laws are pretty complicated...