[Leica] Be enlightened: Work for free!

[Tina Manley]

It's so common these days that there are several Facebook groups related to
"Artists Don't Work For Free".   Everybody expects you to share your work
for free because they don't have a budget.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/263804607094399/?fref=nf

https://www.facebook.com/TheArtsDontWorkforFree/

Don't do it!

Tina

On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Peter Klein <boulanger.croissant at gmail.com>
wrote:

> LUG:  I just received the following "flickrmail" request to publish one of
> my photographs in a calendar.
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/5265537626/
> For free, of course.  Here's the note I received"
>
>    "We have seen your touching photograph shown in the link below, and
>    would love to include it in our Prayer & Meditation Calendar 2018,
>    which can be seen here: PrayerMeditationCalendar.org. Due to budget
>    constraints, our nonprofit universal spiritual organization
>    publishes this calendar each year largely through the kindness of
>    photographers who donate their images. All of us serve as unpaid
>    volunteers to further the cause of love and unity among all beings.
>
>    "We offer to send a calendar to the photographers and provide the
>    credit lines they prefer. Would an arrangement like this be
>    agreeable to you? If so we will need the image highest res & 300 ppi
>    on the shortest side, your preferred credit line and your mailing
>    address."
>
> The signer has a one year-old flickr account with no photographs. This is
> the organization involved:
> http://truthconsciousness.org/about/truth-consciousness-organization/
> And I found this:
> http://www.westword.com/news/hide-the-swami-5055176
>
> Anyway, it made me feel pretty low.  If my work is only of value to scam
> artists and bottom-feeders, and only if I give it away, why bother?
>
> --Peter
>
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