Newspaper fails to secure rights to viral photo

CU-Boulder: Student photographer owns copyright to 'falling bear' photo

That picture appeared in the South China Morning Post credited to the AP.

xburrows wrote in post #14361096
CU-Boulder: Student photographer owns copyright to 'falling bear' photo

when something goes viral it cannot be stopped
(e.g. zombie pandemic)

This makes no sense at all to me. So, this student was shooting the bear during his spare time and with his own gear. How does copyrights of the bear shot belong to the newspaper??? Just because he works for the school paper and he isn't getting paid in there too???

TooManyShots wrote in post #14369965
This makes no sense at all to me. So, this student was shooting the bear during his spare time and with his own gear. How does copyrights of the bear shot belong to the newspaper??? Just because he works for the school paper and he isn't getting paid in there too???

It doesn't.

That was the point...