mhodgson wrote:OK, so in his logic, how does a photo like this work:
Who owns the copyright - the owner of the foreground aircraft? Ryanair? Manchester Airport, since most of the photo is their land and buildings?
The photo copyright is owned by you, and you alone.
Neither Ryanair nor Manchester Airport nor the owner of M-FRZN may use that photo without your approval.
There is a chance, however, that Ryanair or the Hawker owner might keep you from publishing and / or selling the photo. This depends on various factors, not least the legal regulation in the UK (which I don't know in this respect).
It's a bit easier when it comes to photos of people: if you take a photo of me in the street, then you own the copyright of the photo (i.e. I must not put it on my homepage without your approval), but you have to ask for my approval before publishing the photo.
I'm not sure if the same logic applies to objects, like aircraft.
I am fairly sure, however, that it does apply to trademark logos, like the Ryanair logo.
I do remember that there was an airline ordering a.net to not publish photos that show only part of the airline's logo, leading to a respective rule at a.net that, if a photo shows only parts of an aircraft, the logo must not be cut in half by the crop.
Tl;dr - the photo is yours, but others may prevent you from publishing it.
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