Irrelevant. Copyright is about ensuring authors are paid for copies of their work being disseminated. You don't disseminate film. Copyright would cover negat

Irrelevant. Copyright is about ensuring authors are paid for copies of their work being disseminated. You don't disseminate film. Copyright would cover negatives produced under an authors direction in order to distribute his or her image. Photographers "own" the film as property. It is a different legal standard.