On a not quite so related note,... I agree...
I have had my work published with full credit around the world,...and too many times to count locally,....where you'd think would lead to the phone ringing.. well, it hasn't. I have gone places, and the people there recognise my name from photo credits, but no one has ever looked up my info in the phone book, or on the www, and asked if I could shoot something for them...never.
Funny thing,...a few months ago, I covered a grand opening ribbon cutting event at some business in the city,..and the alderman's photographer couldn't get the camera to work,..but asked me for a business card,..and called me a week later asking me to "donate" my pictures to him so he could run my pictures with full name credit of the event in his news letter which would be seen by all his constituents..(who didn't toss away the news letter along with the other junk mail).......I'm like,......nope.... that will cost you "x" amound of $$ sir.....and so I quoted him a reasonable figure for what I thoiught the images were worth to me,..and he still refused! The guy infered that local businesses (gas stations, pizza parlors..etc...whoopie..) would be seeing my name on those pictures, there by giving me free publicity.....and so I had to remind him who he was talking to.. (idiot,..I hope he loses in the next election!!)
Sorry,...name credit on news letter photographs and 50¢ can get me a can of pop!...(depending on which machine you buy it from...some are charging 1.00 for a can now).. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] That's a lot of money to pay for pop..
This guy should have been PAID, not given photo credit only.
The only thing that he could have gotten from this was a tear sheet with his name clearly on the page of the calendar, which I don't believe is asking too much from the publisher since they didn't actuallly pay the guy a flipping dime,.......and so the fellow could use that tear sheet as marketing materials, which would have been seen by the right people,...not just by any old people..
I wonder if that fellow could sue for the amount that they "would have" paid him if he was looking for money rather than a photocredit, since they didn't seem to make his name look obvious to the viewers of those images..
Tell your client,...learn from this,...don't make the same dumb mistake again..
Tell him to read this forum.. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
JP
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