Re: [APML] Fw: images from science

[KGKIRKLEY@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/5/02 12:01:11 PM, katzung1@attbi.com writes:

>Interesting OT variation on this theme: I got an e-mail recently from a
>
>nonprofit organization of shipping companies requesting permission to use
>
>one of my pictures of dolphins. This is a very heavily subsidized group
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>doing lobbying, etc, for commercial shipping companies, but they wanted
>free
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>use because they, technically, were non-profit. I said that since they
>were
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>working for commercial users, they should pay a small fee ($25). They
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>refused to pay and so we parted amicably (I *assume* they're not going
>to
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>pirate the image). Just seemed rather cheap on their part---cruising the
>net
>
>looking for free images.
>
>Bert

Bert:
Unfortunately this happens all the time.
With the advent of the internet, digital imaging and digital manipulation, 
the value of photographs has, in general, gone down. The American Society of 
Media Photographers (ASMP-used to be The American Society of Magazine 
Photographers) is at the forefront defending photographers rights to their 
images and the value of those images. Check them out at www.asmp.org

Kent Kirkley 

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