Re: Kansas firm sells candid Wal-Mart videos

[Steve Wargo] "I think that if Photography Studios had a sign on the door that said "We own the copyright to every photo we take of you and your family", they would all be gone in about a month."

I remember when my wife found out this hard lesson when she paid over $1,000 for some family pictures and years later wanted to have some more prints made. Since she didn't have the negative, she took the photo to the local photo lab to have them make a negative to make prints from. They refused and told her she needed to go back to the photographer for prints. She called and was given a pricetag of over $350 for what she could have got at the local drug store for about $40.

She has become the woman that every time the subject of photos comes up with her girlfriends, she warns them of her experience. Now she gets the kids pictures taken at studios where they are willing to sign that she owns the copyright.

Robert