Martin,
Nobody is 'giving' the photographer copyright: he/she owns it by law. We 'all' exert that degree of control.
The image is licenced for a specific use or usages by the photographer. We - AFAEP as was, and others - spent many years campaigning for this prior to the 1988 Copyright Designs and Patent Act.
The only issue for revision is the fact that many clients think they can do as they wish with our images with no prior recourse to us. It is so easy for them now that they have access to our high quality digital images. They have to be reminded of their obligations.
Clive
Giving the photographer copyright on an image that they may have spent 30 minutes setting up under the guidance of an art director and that required another 20 hours of post production retouching before it can be used is about as old-fashioned as supplying camera-ready artwork with a union stamp on the back!
Sure if you're the photographic equivalent of the proverbial "auteur" then nobody's going to question your right to the benefits of authorship. But what percentage of photographers exert that degree of control?
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But the copyright/usage issue looks ripe for revision...
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