The Nerve of..

livefreenski

that newspaper editor. Ok my best friend road his bike across the country yes bicycle. So before he left i took some photos of him a local beach with his bike while the sun was rising. Both my school paper and local town paper ran a front page story with credit for my photo. Two weeks later the regional paper "The Telegraph" runs a front page story of him making it and the photo are as quoted "Courtsey" speeling? photos not to happy to say the least errr....

-ty

claudermilk

There was recently a long thread over at FM in a similar situation. A paper used the guy's photos (after stripping watermarks no less) & apparently became belligerent when called on it. Last post indicated he had a lawyer & things were progressing toward a courtroom meeting.

So, I wonder, "courtesy" of whom? Certainly not you. I'd find out where they got it & do they realize they did not have permission to run it.

livefreenski

i wrote them a letter including proof that it was indeed my photo and they have not yet responded back yet

-Ty

Angelo

livefreenski wrote:

i wrote them a letter including proof that it was indeed my photo and they have not yet responded back yet

-Ty

screw the letter... send an invoice!

gluwater

Did the local town paper have you sign anything? Is the local paper affiliated with the regional paper, therefore when you gave the local paper permission to use your image you gave their affiliates permission also?

fotodojo

gluwater wrote:

Did the local town paper have you sign anything? Is the local paper affiliated with the regional paper, therefore when you gave the local paper permission to use your image you gave their affiliates permission also?

That's the thought that occurred to me too. Here in Sydney a lot of the municipal papers are directly owned (and run?) by the larger publication companies which I guess means that an agreement with the little one may be an agreement with the larger parent company. I am not a lawyer however so there may be assorted other rules that apply.

Conversley this should mean that for contributed material the same pay scale applies thank-you-oh-so-very-much. It's almost in line with the other thread about Brian/LordV's contributions - Give away nothing for free.

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Jon

livefreenski

No they had me sign nothing at all just verbal permission

-ty