I am not a lawyer. However, if law is rational (and I hope to God it is!), it will be codified/applied in a vaguely similar way. In your mind at least, you can

I am not a lawyer. However, if law is rational (and I hope to God it is!), it will be codified/applied in a vaguely similar way. In your mind at least, you can equate owning a camera to "paying"/commissioning a work. Many different entities (stock photography websites) take away your copyright in exchange for cash. You can consider the act of giving a non-legal entity a camera as an act of "enabling" (commisioning) photos to be taken on it.