What do you do when client fails to pay?
crystal wrote: Oh and to be a ---- about it...
Since you own those photos, try and get written permission from the client and sell those photos. Therefore you still be making money from the photos.
(you'll need written permission since it's his property)
im not so sure about that... he was given permission to be on the property expressly for the purpose of taking photos. the fact that he was paid in portion for this shows it was permitted. He is the owner/copyright holder of the photos regardless of whether he was paid. If he was on a public street he would be able to sell the photos. The fact that he was permitted on the property to take the photos he should have the same rights.
In the absence of a contract, which seems to be the consensus here, there is no transfer of ownership of the photos. Since he is the default copyright owner and he was not paid in fully it can also be deemed as a cost recouping act for work that was completed but not paid for.
Similar example... if an artist painted a picture of the ranch... and the owner decided he didnt like it or just wasnt going to buy it... the artist would still have the right to sell that painting to someone else...
but many people these days lack that honor and would just assume the dept is forgotten 
I agree with this...geoffellis wrote:
crystal wrote: Oh and to be a ---- about it...
Since you own those photos, try and get written permission from the client and sell those photos. Therefore you still be making money from the photos.
(you'll need written permission since it's his property)
im not so sure about that... he was given permission to be on the property expressly for the purpose of taking photos. the fact that he was paid in portion for this shows it was permitted. He is the owner/copyright holder of the photos regardless of whether he was paid. If he was on a public street he would be able to sell the photos. The fact that he was permitted on the property to take the photos he should have the same rights.
In the absence of a contract, which seems to be the consensus here, there is no transfer of ownership of the photos. Since he is the default copyright owner and he was not paid in fully it can also be deemed as a cost recouping act for work that was completed but not paid for.
Similar example... if an artist painted a picture of the ranch... and the owner decided he didnt like it or just wasnt going to buy it... the artist would still have the right to sell that painting to someone else...
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