Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The economy is not the problem. Attitude of the US media giants is the problem. Read American Photographer a few years back on the World Press winners and lack of publication in the US. Salgado gets in the NY Times but the rest would rather pay for photos of Julia Roberts or Tom Cruise than documentaries on poor parts of the world. Kevin Argue Canada kargue@sympatico.ca - ---------- >From: "George Weir" <george@georgeweir.com> >To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Subject: Re: [Leica] The Decisive Moment or...sounds like another of those God Damn commie photographers is on some sort of socialist tear again!;-) >Date: Tue, Feb 12, 2002, 8:30 PM > > "Mike Gil" <dtt2150@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Why blame Corbis. The economy sucks everywhere. >> There are alot of cut backs throught our economy. Why >> should they be exempted. > > Nobody was blaming Corbis for the economy, rather a strong complaint was > being made to Corbis in respect of their treatment of their > photographers. > ie > "the corporation's French lawyers stated that if there was no agreement > between the company and the photographers their archives would be > returned to them but without the slide mounts, and therefore the caption > information, and minus protectors on the negatives" > > and no Microsoft does not own Corbis, Bill Gates does. > > > All good things to you and yours > > George > > George Weir Photography > www.georgeweir.com > Phone 717-581-0389 > Toll-free 877-934-7368 > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html