In this day & age of self publishing a 'publisher' who's understands the niceties of image usage is a rare thing.
DS On 10 June 2012 14:26, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > if she's using a respectable publisher then their legal department should > put a stop to that. In any case, if she won't give the book away, why should > you give the photo away? > > B > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> Matthew Hunt >> Sent: 10 June 2012 03:40 >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: OT Not worth paying for >> >> An author of dog training books contacted my wife about a picture I >> took of my wife and our late Doberman. The author wanted to use the >> picture in a book she is writing. My wife respects the author and liked >> the idea of being in the book, but I didn't want to give away a >> photograph for a book to be sold at profit. I realized that the book is >> likely to sell on a pretty small scale, so I thought a good compromise >> would be to allow her to use my photograph, in exchange for a free copy >> of the book. That would make my wife happy (for both the book and being >> in it) and be a minimal expense for the author. >> >> The author declined these terms. You see, she plans to use hundreds of >> photographs, and clearly it would be too expensive to agree to such >> terms. >> >> (Since the author is seeking permission from the subjects, rather than >> the photographers, I'm sure the book will be full of photographs that >> she doesn't have the right to publish.) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
