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Why wouldn’t polyamorous people marry?You’ve probably been told for your entire life that marriage is all about exclusivity. One and only. Forsaking all others. Right?Well, guess what? You were told wrong.Marriage is not all about exclusivity. It can be, if that’s what you want, but you can choose.Marriage is, first and foremost, a contract between two people and the State. In the US, the State grants about 1,400 special legal rights and privileges to married people, about 1,200 of which you can only get from marriage and not in any other way. Legal rights and privileges like insurance, inheritance, transferability of assets, transferability of benefits, and more.Why do polyamorous people get married? Because they want those 1,400 legal rights and privileges.Why do they continue with other relationships? Because they choose to, and marriage doesn’t mean they can’t.As I write this answer, someone on Quora is creating phony profiles that look just like mine, and using them to send abusive/harassing messages to people. If you receive an abusive PM or comment, check the profile carefully. It probably isn’t me.

A record label deal typically entails : (i) a transfer of rights from artist to record label, (ii) artist specific obligations, (iii) record label specific obligationsEach element can be negotiated and discussed, so most of the time record label deals are never exactly similar from one artist to the other.i) An assign of rights from artist to record labelThe (timed) exclusive right to have recorded, reproduced and commercially distributed, artist's material (the recordings)The (timed) exclusive rights to grant other authorization to use artist material (e.g. licensing a track for a compilation release or syncing a recording to an advertisment)The (timed) exclusive right to release or option new material from artistThe (timed) exclusive right to use artist's likeness and to reproduce it in artworks as well as merchandising or in the press as a means of promotionToday usual additions are merchandising rights and even live performance rights / touring exclusivityii) A set of artist obligationsNot to sample or use uncleared material or to declare such material for clearance and proper crediting. Any clearance fees to be taken off artist royaltiesNot to unreasonably withhold approval of artistic material (from artworks to recordings)To make good on commitment to help label promote artist (attend interviews, gigs, etc.)To refrain from recording for any other label be it as a member of a band or under an aliasTo respect an embargo on live and re-recordings of at least five years past the original recording' release dateiii) In counterpart a set of label obligationsCommitment to finance recording, mastering and mixing sessionsCommitment to indemnify any accompanying musicians and producer or any professional necessary to the recording of artist's albumCommitment to a release windowBest effort promotion commitmentsCommitment to royalty rates per usage, territory etc.Commitment to report on records sold, and any earnings derived from rights granted by artist and to pay specified royalty (usually on a semi-annually basis) as defined under the royalty rateLimitation (if any) of the agreement to a territory, a period of time or sometimes a specific format (e.g. digital vs. actual records)

According to http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap2.html the US Copyright Law says: "Ownership of a copyright, or of any of the exclusive rights under a copyright, is distinct from ownership of any material object in which the work is embodied. Transfer of ownership of any material object, including the copy or phonorecord in which the work is first fixed, does not of itself convey any rights in the copyrighted work embodied in the object; nor, in the absence of an agreement, does transfer of ownership of a copyright or of any exclusive rights under a copyright convey property rights in any material object."My understanding is copyright is held by the author of the work. In this case, the photographer. As stated above, transfer of ownership of the material object does not transfer over the copyright.