Photography board visitors,
I appreciate what everyone is saying about copyright laws and such, but what it boils down to is that Amanda, myself and many other disbrides hired/hire non-Disney photographers and we got/expect much more for a lot less money than Disney charges.
Some of our photography packages with our non-Disney photographers were half the price of the similar Disney photography package
AND include a High -Res CD of the images with various levels of editing, in addition to various sizes of prints (fully edited) and various albums, AND full rights to our images.
For example, my non Disney Photographer charged $1500 (including the high -res cd with full rights assigned to me). The most similar Disney package (same hours shooting, including the high-res cd with rights) would have cost me $3800.
BOTH Photographers would have spent the same exact time shooting our wedding. And based on what I've seen of Disney Photography, it appears that the Non-Disney Photographers spend MUCH more time actually editing.
I think the source of the frustration and confusion behind Amanda's initial question relates back to just that...
Why does she have rights to her non-Disney photographer's photos for a fraction of Disney's cost???
Maybe we have been spoiled by our non-Disney photographers.
I think many disbrides share that frustration.