Re: [Leica] WE WUZ ROBBED!

["Dan Post" <dpost@triad.rr.com>]

Hmmm, reminds me of the good old days at the Vlad Tepisch School of Law,
Carpathia University....
The simple common law approach the would have been to impale all the staff,
sell the women and children into slavery, burn the building, stir the ashes
and salt the earth!
The dirty Bastits!

Dan ( Posing a a mild mannered reporter for a great metropolitan
newspaper....) Post
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Moore" <dmm@bronze.lcs.mit.edu>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] WE WUZ ROBBED!


>
> > Andrew, how did they get your pictures? Who gave them the pictures?
>
> The first time I gave the photos to the paper (put them on the editor's
> desk with a handwritten note explaining the 'terms', stating specifically
> that they were not to run without credit).
>
> The second time I gave the photos to the theatre who was putting on the
> production that the photos would be promoting, and figuring that word
> wouldn't get through to the paper, I called the editor myself (and spoke
> with her) stating specifically that the photos were not to be run without
> credit (and reminding her of the first time this happened).  I was
> pleasant too -- wasn't even remotely rude.
>
> Both of these "jobs" were done as favors for the local artists (in case 1)
> and theatre (in case 2), at no charge; I like to do that sort of thing
> once in a while and my payment is the publicity I get through my photos
> running in the local papers.  So I never put any of this in writing,
> figuring it would be too formal.  Live and learn.  In an event it doesn't
> excuse the response (or lack thereof) that I got from the editor.  She
> took the defensive approach, avoided my calls and didn't ever offer a
> simple apology.
>
> --Andrew
> NO ARCHIVE
>
>