Do you have rights over 'your' footage?

I'm often asked about who has rights to creative content. Is it you? Or the person who asked you to do the work? Or both?

Not being an IP (intellectual property) lawyer I usually look at the ceiling and start to sound evasive.

More usefully you could turn to someone clever, like the firm Briffa. They specialise in IP issues for creatives.

Their archive of legal cases makes for quite interesting reading. And one recent post caught my eye. It looks at who owned the footage in a skydiving shoot over Mount Everest.

Read it here.