RE: [Leica] WE WUZ ROBBED!

["Mehrdad Sadat" <m.sadat@verizon.net>]

you got published!! that's great. u spend enough time being a lawyer, just
keep shooting and be more careful next time.



PS
if you purse, if you will get aggravated over nothing, you imagine 100 yrs
from now, it won't matter
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Thanks, Mehrdad


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Marc James
> Small
> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 9:04 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us; rollei@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Cc: hasselblad@kelvin.net
> Subject: [Leica] WE WUZ ROBBED!
>
>
> I discovered on Thursday evening last that a local up-market newspaper had
> published a picture of mine -- attributed, mind you, to one
> "Mary" Small --
> in an article of a local jazz drummer.  This fellow has admitted
> giving the
> magazine the picture but his comment was, "so what"?  (He is a REAL
> straight-shooter, no drugs, no alcohol, Thinks Good Thoughts and kayaks
> down the South Slope of Mount Everest, plus he has a couple of
> doctrates in
> optical science.)
>
> This fellow wanted me to shoot a CD cover.  I shot several rolls
> of film of
> him in the fall of 1998, in downtown Roanoke, with Hasselblad.
> He reviewed
> the prints and wanted a second shoot, which I did, these being on the Blue
> Ridge Parkway.  These were with Leica, some with a 2.5/12.5cm Hektor, the
> rest with a 2.8/90 "skinny" Tele-Elmarit.  The final picture selected for
> the cover was one taken with the "skinny" Tele-Elmarit.  The picture
> printed improperly by the magazine was the one in the first batch.
>
> Last year, an article about this fellow appeared in the local paper with
> some of my pictures.  I then fussed at him and reminded him that the B&W
> work I did for him was for use in his fliers only.
>
> On Friday, I called the magazine.   They must be used to this:
> they put me
> through to the publisher, who was polite, took my information, and stated
> he had to speak with the author and would be back in touch with me on
> Monday (tomorrow, as I write these words).
>
> I suspect the magazine will apologize and offer a token payment.
> I want to
> sue both the magazine and the drummer and take an ounce of their
> hides, but
> that may just be a surplus of testosterone flocking through my blood -- as
> a trial attorney, I recognize that most juries regard copyright suits as
> Big Yawns.
>
> And, don't forget, they attributed the picture to "Mary" Small.
>
> Advice?
>
> Marc
>
> msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
> Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
>