On 9/12/06, zero 0000 <nought_0000(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
I think there is a point you are missing. If I ask
someone else to
take a photo of me with my camera, then (if nothing is otherwise
said) both of us normally assume that the photo and all its rights
will be mine. Such a shared assumption can be considered an
[[implicit contract]]. If so, an actual (not just imagined) transfer
of copyright has occurred.
Zero (who knows nothing about it).
The problem with that argument is that copyright transfers, other than
by operation of law, have to be in writing.
Anthony