Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>From the looks of them, they smack of PR, and cut and paste work. As for the rest, no thanks, I'll take my own. S. Dimitrov > From: Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 17:19:06 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] New York Times anonymous fine art photography Now > Mark's > screw up > > At 10:37 PM 7/3/2004 +0200, you wrote: >> But Tina, I assume that all of the named photographers entered into >> whatever agreements they have with Getty voluntarily. So I still do not >> see what is bad or immoral about these sales. Sure, from yours or Ted's >> point of view it might be better if no print ever changed hands for less >> than $500, but photographs, even fine art ones, are a commodity whose >> price is set by supply and demand. There is nothing inherently moral or >> immoral about that. >> >> Nathan > > No, not necessarily voluntarily. Getty bought out several stock agencies > without any input from the photographers in the agencies. Many > photographers lost all rights to their photos that were in the agencies' > libraries because of fine-print clauses in their original > contracts. Royalty Free has been terrible for photographers. It has > almost destroyed the stock photography business and may yet. Instead of > getting paid for every use of a photograph, some photographers sell all > rights without a thought for the future. Advertising agencies have begun > to realize that it can be very embarrassing when two competing companies > end up using the same royalty free photographs in their advertising > campaigns, but many businesses are going for the cheapest possible > photographs which are usually the RF disks with many photographs that can > be used often for any purpose. ASMP, APA, Editorial Photographers and > other professional photographer associations fight against the use of RF > photographs. > > Tina > > > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > > http://www.pdiphotos.com > http://www.workbookstock.com > http://www.newscom.com > http://www.americanphotojournalist.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information