Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/09/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Tina, Here's your response !!!!!!!!!!! IN BOLD LETTERS. "USE MY PHOTOS?" YOU WILL DEAL WITH? MY LAWYER!" Today more and more newspapers, magazines, photo agencies and users of photography are being bought out by the scumbags of the earth. It's the SOB's like these newspaper owners who are and have put thousands of independent photogs on their death beds of the "POORHOUSE!" Or monetarily dead! :-( This for you is simple! "SHOW NO MERCY! TAKE NO PRISONERS! It's too bad about the Syrian project. However, you are one of the finest story telling "STOCK PHOTOGS" anywhere! And your photography is "IMMPECCABLEY" some of the best in the world! 1/ Roughly what did the Mid-east photo shoot cost you and Tom? No need to make it an exact amount? A wild figure will give "THE CREW" a rough idea what shoots of this nature out of pocket cost you personally before you retrieve a penny in return? Just put all the blame on the newspaper during any meetings with the folks trying to help the Syrian's. Play it up on local TV on whatever programmes you can. #1? Retrieve all your photos immediately! So those SOB'S can't use them in any fashion. IF YOU DON'T? YOU KNOW THEY WILL IN SOME KIND OF NEFARIOUS FASHION USE THEM IN PUBLICATION! Then worry about consequences later! By your description of these SOB'S they may well just go ahead and use them figuring you don't have the economic background to sue them? After all these kind of owners look at we photographers as nobodies? So they don't care. "HANG TOUGH GIRL GO DEEP FOR THE HEART" CHEERS, Dr. Ted Grant C.M. O.C. -----Original Message----- From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Tina Manley Sent: September-13-16 1:22 PM To: lug Subject: [Leica] Draconian "Release" LUG - I'm sure you've heard more than enough about the Syrian refugee project but I've run into a problem and would like your opinion. The local newspaper The Herald - which has been bought out by McClatchy, along with every other newspaper around - asked for some of my photos to illustrate an article about the project. I sent them several photos two weeks ago with permission to use them in the newspaper and on their website with a copyright notice. I didn't hear anything for two weeks. Today I got an e-mail saying that they could not use the photos with a copyright notice and if I gave them permission to use them without the copyright notice, I would also have to sign a release giving the Herald "an irrevocable, royalty-free license to publish, republish, resell, distribute, copy and edit the submission an unlimited number of times in any print, electronic or other medium." I explained to them that I could never sign a release that gives away all rights to my photos - that it would not be fair to me or the subjects of my photos. I explained that I never lease photos as royalty-free and that any royalty-free photo that featured an identifiable person would have to have a model-release signed by that person. All of my photos are rights managed for editorial use only. I told them they were welcome to use the photos with a copyright notice. Now I have to explain to the committee why the photos won't be in the Herald :-( What do you think? Tina -- Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com tina-manley.artistwebsites.com http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/ Tina+Manley.html _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus