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Originally Posted by AKPhotos  First if you work for someone as an employee, not a sub-contractor, and you use company gear to take a photo while on the clock, the copyright is owned by the company. If you are hired to shoot a photo shoot, like a product or model or wedding shoot, and you are using your camera gear, even if the lights are leased, you are paying for them, so they count as yours, then you own all the copyrights to all the images you took, unless stated differently in the contract.l |
When employee vs. independent contractor is blurred, copyright is complicated. See a lawyer.
The only thing I want to add is it doesn't matter who owns the equipment to determine if you are an employee. There are many jobs in which you are an employee but you own your own tools. Mechanics to physicians usually own their own tools but are often employees.
The reverse can also be true
My simple point is don’t use ownership to determine employee status.
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