Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/07/03

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Subject: [Leica] Accidental photojournalist
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 10:22:43 -0500
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On Jul 3, 2013, at 10:10 AM, George Lottermoser wrote:

> In my opinion it's the people who have screwed the creators out of those 
> fees,
> rather than the creators working to get compensated for use of their work,
> who should be looked down upon.

P.S.
Newspapers firing their photographic staff
has nothing to do with photographers selling "rights to use their 
photographs."
It has everything to do with the overall devaluation of photographers and 
photographs.

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
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