If you write a manuscript, take it to a copy shop and have a copy of it
made, both the rights to the intellectual property you created and the
owership of the copy you paid for are yours. Same goes for visual art.
It is, of course, possible to create a contract to assign joint or
exclusive rights to another party in return for stated compensation.
Absent a signed contract, the payment for scanning to CD was simply a
payment for services and the shop has no rights to the results at all.
Your wife should mark any copies for sale or for viewing on the web with
her copyright notice.
Moose
Mike wrote:
My wife just had some large art work scanned and is having it made
into prints, cards etc. I gave her a blank CD so she could get the
file. Well, my CD wasn't compatible with the computers at the print
shop, they use macs, we use windose. So if they burn a CD for her will
it be compatible in Windose? What should I specify? Actually I would
like to get the Photshop file which includes the work already done in
getting ready to print. It should then work with my profiles etc.,
right? Does my wife own this file or is this added work still the
property of the print shop? How do you professionals handle this?
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