Reply #23: Only if LaLa publishes the pictures....

[darkmaestro019]

edit for clarity: most magazines "buy" the photos by paying a percentage AFTER publication, so this wanders very far from our original premise, trying to figure out if the Scalia picture belongs to the guy who took it. I'd say it does...

We work with one photographer quite regularly, and he's freelance, as in he gets no pay from anyone unless they buy the photographs. I don't know how "Freelance" could mean multiple things, but I guess it might. If LaLa doesn't want them--even if they said "Shoot us some girl in vintagey stuff" and then didn't like them, the resulting pictures are the photographers until someone buys them, and he can (and probably must, lol) try to sell them to another magazine, or throw them out the window or whatever he wants.

edit: clarity