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 Tue, 19 June 2001, "Rodgers, David" wrote: > > > Why should any business, or artists ever be angry at having their work > photographed? There's no such thing as bad publicity. > good god man! there certianly is such a thing as bad publicity. what if someone came into your dark room and pulled a horrible, attrocious print from the trash, one that was very overdeveloped, out of focus, big fixer stain on it, and then published it with your name under it. "this is david rogers". some artists go to great and vast lengths to make sure that their work is seen under very stringent conditions. there's also the right of an artist to profit from their own work. so let's say you make a sculpture, and it's beautiful, everybody loves it, you have a right to profit from your work, so you hire a photographer to come in and make a marvelous poster of it, which you then sell in the gift shop, you do okay in this way until some yuts comes into your gallery and, against your wishes, photographs your statue, even if they do it well in an flattering way, they then take this image and start making unauthorized reproductions of it. the same thing with someone making a bootleg copy of a movie -- the creative parties are being denied their right to profit from their creativity. kc