A open question pertaining to pictures/video

[razz1]

I am wondering who owns the rights to a picture and or video in this situation that my buddy is in.

buddy took pics for a fed and also video he never had a contract he just was told by the head promoter that he had to hand in his photos and videos when he took them which he did being a dumb ass and then said fed who let him take pictures at the shows and videos of the events one day goes and posts his pics and gives them away to various outlets claiming there the feds whom buddy is not working for currently due to some disagreement.

[justinvega]

I don't know the specific legalities, but for example my fiance modeling for a few photographers and she had to fill out a talent release form for them to have permission to use her pix and some of those companies imprint there logo on the actual picture.

It sounds like in that situation, it was more of a "verbal" contract rather than anything written in stone. So he was probably f***ed over in this case. If it was five years ago, I would have done the same thing. Hopefully this guy atleast got paid something, if not, then the promoter was probably assuming he was just helping out.