Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ken, If it is glossy and toney, then presumably they have the money to pay you a proper fee for the use of your work. Given that they stole the picture, you should demand (using legal assistance when needed): - a customary fee for the use of your image (ASMP guidelines, I am sure Tina or one of the other pros here can enlighten you) - damages for using the image without your permission - an apology with proper attribution of the image in the following issue of the magazine. Nathan Kenneth Frazier wrote: > Listers, > > I just got in a few minutes ago from a dinner party. At the party the > current issue of a local, glossy, toney, magazine was circulating. (It > contains articles of interest to the local community, and especially to > the local arts scene. Frank Deford, for instance, has a new piece in > this issue.) I had not glanced at my copy until tonight. > > After dinner, over dessert, several of us were sitting at table, talking > about some of the articles in this issue, and lo, and behold, on the > inside back page, there was one of my photographs, a portrait I had shot > for someone else, now being used to illustrate an article. > > Needless to say, this was used without my permission, nor was there > acknowledgement. > > Any thoughts about how to approach this, or if I should approach it at > all? > > My first thought is that I would like, at the least, for the editors to > publish an acknowledgement of me as the photographer, in the next issue. > > TIA, > > Ken Frazier > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com