Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 05:28 PM 5/7/2006, you wrote: >Actually, I'd like to suggest that the advent of the web has caused a >blossoming of PJ work, and has given photographers at virtually every size >newspaper opportunities they really never had before to do interesting work. > >B. D. And they are being paid a living wage to post on the internet? Who is paying them? Do they retain the rights to their photos? There are thousands of blogs - some of them have wonderful photos from great photographers who are posting them at their own costs with the hope that someone will see them. How long can they continue to do that without pay? There are also web sites for most newspapers, which many times post the articles but no photos. If there are photos, are they copyrighted by the photographer? It's an exception if they are. It has become accepted practice that photojournalists are not paid extra for web use. Ask any newspaper photographer. There are more photos out there than ever before, but nobody is getting paid for them. The microstock agencies are proliferating like fleas and selling all rights to all photos for pennies. It's not a good time to be photographer unless you have another source of income like teaching. Tina Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA http://www.tinamanley.com