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Many people who purchase photographs are under the impression that all rights to an image belong to them when they buy a print. But this is not the case, and hasn't been for many years.
The law on copyright changed with the passage of the 1988 Copyright, Designs & Patents Act, granting photographers the same rights that had long been enjoyed by authors, painters and other creative individuals. The copyright of a photograph now belongs to the person who took it.
Copyright extends for 70 years after the end of the year in which the author dies, and offers protection against unauthorized reproduction of the photographs and entitles the owner to economic benefit from the photographs taken and provides for damages to the copyright holder for unauthorized publication, duplication or removal from display from a publicly available website. The presence of an image on a website does not make it "public domain" and available for anyone to use.
In addition to these legal rights, the photographer also enjoys certain other rights, which include the right not to have a photograph falsely attributed, and the right to not have the work subjected to derogatory treatment.
What this means is that clients may only use the photographs taken by a photographer in ways that have been agreed at the time they were commissioned or sold. If further uses are later desired, then permission must be sought from the copyright holder at an additional fee. It also means that you are not allowed to reproduce the image in any way without the photographer's agreement. This is why photographers produce reprints for you of wedding photographs, portraits, news events, sporting events or any other work. It is because they hold or own the copyright to the image. Further, if an image is removed from a website and printed it is not only copyright infringement, it is theft.
For this reason it is essential that clients specify the uses to which images will be used -- in writing for any purpose other than personal viewing -- when briefing the photographer and requesting a quotation. This agreement then becomes part of the contract. It should cover how the work will be used, where (geographically) it will be used and for how long it will be used. All these things enter into the price calculations.