Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/15

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Subject: [Leica] There are honest people out there :-)
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:09:29 +0200

Back in 2005, I posted this image among my PAWs:
http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_47alt2.jpg

The bridge is called Martinus Nijhoff bridge, and until a couple of  
days ago I had no idea who this chap was. But now I know that he was a  
Dutch poet. How do I know? Well, I received an e-mail from a poetry  
publishing house in the UK:
http://www.anvilpresspoetry.com/

They told me they were going to publish a book of his poems,  
translated into English, and wanted to know if they could use the  
image for the cover, even enclosing a PDF showing what it would look  
like. I replied that yes, they could use it but I was not giving away  
my work for free. On the other hand, realizing that a book of poetry  
by a Dutch poet is not exactly going to make JK Rowling worry about  
being bumped off the bestseller list, I decided to propose a symbolic  
fee of ?50 (license for this particular use only) and a couple of  
copies of the book. They happily accepted, and the price does not seem  
out of line when I look at Alamy for this type of usage.

Nice people, and I even have a UK bank account to make it easy for  
them to pay me :-)

Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
http://www.frozenlight.eu
http://www.greatpix.eu
http://www.nathanfoto.com

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