Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 6/19/01 2:00 PM, Paul Chefurka at Paul_Chefurka@pmc-sierra.com wrote: > I read a post on some photographic web site from a Nascar-enthusiast/amateur > photographer. In a bookstore he picked up a memorial book on Dale Earnhart - > to discover a photo from his web site, reproduced with neither permission nor > credit. When he complained to the publisher, he was told he should be happy > his picture was deemed good enough for inclusion, here's a free copy of the > book and please go away now. He's sueing. > > Nothing is of such low quality that someone somewhere might not want it. Yeah, but when a photograph gets used like that I can't remember the exact details but the standard fee is several times what they would have had to pay if they'd just asked for permission in the first place. - -- John Brownlow http://www.pinkheadedbug.com