Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/07/02

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Subject: [Leica] Not a professional photographer.
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 18:55:17 -0500
References: <8D04594400D60E1-1A60-6DD72@webmail-m299.sysops.aol.com>

Thank you. Good to know where our friends on the LUG "are coming from."

Is it fair to assume that the majority of your past publication work belongs 
to the publications that employed you? that you do not own the copyright to 
that work?

a note off the iPad, George

On Jul 2, 2013, at 6:37 PM, lrzeitlin at aol.com wrote:

> After rotation back to the States, I returned to college for a graduate 
> degree, again earning money by working as a photo free lance for the 
> Chicago Sun-Times and for UPI. I confess that I was not a very dedicated 
> photojournalist and never saw it a permanent career. It was just a way of 
> facilitating other objectives and paid me a minimal income while pursuing 
> them. In later years I did photo feature stories for travel magazines 
> covering India, Norway, and Wales. I never sold a single photo to a stock 
> agency. All my newspaper friends convinced me that it was no better than 
> being a union scab, A way of stealing work from legitimate 
> photojournalists. Now all I do is an occasional story for boating 
> magazines.


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