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Originally Posted by davidfor
When I read this, I thought good, but, then I thought about it and there is a fairly major problem with your builder analogy.
Firstly, you are correct, if I get a builder to build me a house, I don't keep paying the builder once I have it. But, if I buy a book, I don't keep paying the author once I have it. [...]
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The contract matters, what are you actually paying for? Are you paying the builder to build a house (paying for labour and materials, see also hildea's post #247), or are you paying the builder for the use of a house (see Little.Egret's post above), or are you paying for the final product? You need to know before work starts if you don't want nasty surprises.
Pay a writer to write a book and ownership of the IP goes to you, unless the contract says otherwise. (With photography - I think - the assumptions go the other way unless the contract says otherwise.)