A new copyright bill just passed in
Canada, and it means big things for photographers. Essentially, the
bill grants photographers the rights to the photos they take, even if
that work is commissioned by someone else. It’s the same setup as in
the US. Photographers own the work unless they’ve signed over the
rights in a contract.
The change in copyrights has taken
quite a bit of time – around 20 years. What’s strange is that
while other creative industries enjoyed the copyrights to what they
created, photography was singled out. “In Canada,” says
Canadian Association of Professional Image Creators copyright head
Andre Cornellier, “all other artists have already owned the
copyrights to their work and thanks to this new law, Canadian
photographers, albeit the last in the industrialized world, now have
all legal rights to their images.”
(via PetaPixel)
