Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's so common these days that there are several Facebook groups related to "Artists Don't Work For Free". Everybody expects you to share your work for free because they don't have a budget. https://www.facebook.com/groups/263804607094399/?fref=nf https://www.facebook.com/TheArtsDontWorkforFree/ Don't do it! Tina On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Peter Klein <boulanger.croissant at gmail.com> wrote: > LUG: I just received the following "flickrmail" request to publish one of > my photographs in a calendar. > https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/5265537626/ > For free, of course. Here's the note I received" > > "We have seen your touching photograph shown in the link below, and > would love to include it in our Prayer & Meditation Calendar 2018, > which can be seen here: PrayerMeditationCalendar.org. Due to budget > constraints, our nonprofit universal spiritual organization > publishes this calendar each year largely through the kindness of > photographers who donate their images. All of us serve as unpaid > volunteers to further the cause of love and unity among all beings. > > "We offer to send a calendar to the photographers and provide the > credit lines they prefer. Would an arrangement like this be > agreeable to you? If so we will need the image highest res & 300 ppi > on the shortest side, your preferred credit line and your mailing > address." > > The signer has a one year-old flickr account with no photographs. This is > the organization involved: > http://truthconsciousness.org/about/truth-consciousness-organization/ > And I found this: > http://www.westword.com/news/hide-the-swami-5055176 > > Anyway, it made me feel pretty low. If my work is only of value to scam > artists and bottom-feeders, and only if I give it away, why bother? > > --Peter > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com tina-manley.artistwebsites.com http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html