The law on copyright changed fundamentally with the passing of the 1988 Copyright, Designs & Patents Act.

Before then it was the person or company who commissioned the photography who owned the copyright. The photographer had no enduring rights to his own work.

The 1988 Act reversed the situation granting photographers the same rights as had long been enjoyed by authors, painters and other creative individuals. The copyright in the photograph now belongs to the person who took it - the only exception being employed photographers, where it is his/her employer who owns the copyright unless they have a contractual agreement to the contrary.

On 31 October 2005, we received an email from Roy Fraser (of Fraser Portraits) granting us unlimited use of the Panora Panoramic photographs

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