If no contract, what are copyright laws??

[punktured]

If i have worked for a band for a few years, and never signed any agreement when first hired, any sort of intellectual property or copyright agreement...does my employer own my art work, or do i still retain creative copyright?

[JustinHelton]

if there was no contract or agreement that said they owned it I would think its still yours....I could be wrong though

[Hrabovsky]

If you were doing it as a part of your employment—it belongs to the boss.

If it was freelance—it's yours.

[rwarnick]

If you were doing it as a part of your employment—it belongs to the boss.

If it was freelance—it's yours.

yes, if its freelance and theres no contract saying they owned it, i'm pretty sure it yours.

[punktured]

let's say you wanted to make a vinly "toy" from an image off a poster you did...would that be a copyright infringement? Plagarising your own work?

[Barry Obama]

creator of an image retains inherent copyright unless it is specifically granted via a contract.

[dontfalldown]

depends if it was a "work for hire"........

Works Made for Hire. -- (1) a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment; or (2) a work specially ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution to a collective work, as a part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, as a translation, as a supplementary work, as a compilation, as an instructional text, as a test, as answer material for a test, or as an atlas, if the parties expressly agree in a written instrument signed by them that the work shall be considered a work made for hire. 17 U.S.C. sec 101

[punktured]

creator of an image retains inherent copyright unless it is specifically granted via a contract.

Is a w-2 consider a contract??

[Dusty!]

no but getting a w-2 would imply that you were employed by them. in which case its probably theirs.

[punktured]

dusty, you work for sub-pop yes? do you own all the images you create for them?