Here’s a question I hope you can answer.  25 years ago, when I was in high school, I took a few photos of my teacher for the school paper.

I don’t honestly remember if it was for class credit or not and I never signed an agreement saying the photos were a work for hire.

Nevertheless, could the school lay a claim to the photos as being a work for hire, since I was a student working for a publicly funded paper?

And does the paper require me to grant them a license to give my photos to a third party for them to exploit?

Thanks!

[question submitted directly to the editor on October 31, 2008]