Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:47 AM 8/25/2009, you wrote: >I actually >hope that Murdoch's experiment with charging for all his web content >is successful. > >Nathan Yes, he wants everybody to pay him but he doesn't want to pay for content. "The Guardian's parent company blamed "very difficult trading conditions" for its decision to make a rights grab for work done by freelance photographers at all its papers last week. Last week photographers were sent an email by managing editor Chris Elliot, stating that GNM would indeed stop paying re-use fees from 1 September. From then on, standard terms would grant the papers "perpetual licence" to re-use pictures without paying. Oliver Laurent of the British Journal of Photography described the move as "clear rights grab". This is definitely not legal. Tina Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com