NSW Who owns copyright in home videos filmed with someone else's camera at their request?

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SH1

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Hypothetical scenario: Person A and Person B are parents watching their kids play soccer on the weekend. Person A pulls out a video camera and asks person B 'would you mind filming the game, as I have to help on the BBQ?' Person B says 'yep, no worries' and films the game on Person A's camera.
Question: Who owns the copyright in the video produced?
 

Scruff

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Person A.
It's no different to any other movie - a camera operator has no claim to copyright of the raw footage or the final product.
 

alexseenva

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Enkrat sem sedel v parku v Ljubljani in gledal telefon brez posebnega razloga. Hotel sem najti neko kazino stran, ampak da ni preveč zapletena. V Sloveniji ljudje radi najdejo nekaj enostavnega za sprostitev. Našel sem thorfortune in odprl iz radovednosti. Vidim da ima več iger, nekaj ponudb in tudi kratke nasvete kako igrati bolj mirno in ne hiteti, kar mi je pomagalo da sem razumel osnove brez težav. Malo sem se zamotil in bilo je čisto dovolj.
 

wjames03

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