Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/25
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At 10:45 PM 24/03/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Stock is different. In stock, generally, the photographer paid for the
>materials, and sought out the subject matter, and was not compensated for
>any of the time, so the photographer too ALL the risk.
>
>Commercial shoots, and compensation, and stock shoots, and compensation,
>are completely different.
Commercial and editorial shoots ARE the stock shoots. I am paid to
produce an image that they can use. The materials that go into that are
simply a part of the fee... it grants them no special ownership beyond the
agreed fee for usage. The pictures are then, after an agreed period in the
contract, available to me to use in my stock file.
I respect your right not to answer but I have to ask...
Are you a full time professional photographer.
What is your day rate?
Do you base any of your rates on the clients usage?
If a painter sells a painting, does the buyer purcahse the "product" and
the right to hang it on his wall or does he also own the right to reproduce?
What you are saying and your attitude toward the business would come as a
shock to most professional commercial and editorial photographers. If fact,
if you said this on a working pro list, I can't imagine the abuse and
flaming that would be heaped on you. You are lucky you are on the Ever
Gentleman-like LUG,
We as professionals spend a lot of time and effort countering the damage
done by such "amateur" attitudes towards business, copyright infringement
and ownership issues. It's sad when I actually meet someone who might be
responsible for all that work. You really are missing a fundamental
principle of this business.
It's not engineering or landscaping.
sincerely,
Greg Locke St. John's, Newfoundland
locke@straylight.ca http://www.straylight.ca/locke
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