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There have been disagreements over this type of arrangement in the past and the issue becomes in that agreeing to have surrendered all photos, negatives etc...along with surrendering rights to the material created on assignment they will have the strongest argument that they acquired the rights to those images as well. The reason that this argument is strong is that if a person were to publish other works not created on assignment for the magazine of the same subject, it diminishes the value of the photos taken for the magazine and thus hurts their property rights in the photos. Thus, without some written reservation of rights by your father, the magazine would most likely be able to successfully enjoin you and prohibit you from posting those photos which would likely be deemed to be their property as all of the negatives and copies were supposed to have been surrendered to the magazine as part of the contract (meaning your dad should not have had any copies remaining).

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