Re: [APML] S&T's New Publishing Agreement

["Joseph O'Neil" <joneil@multiboard.com>]

>Back in the golden age of the 70's and 80's, big money could be made by 
>the top astrophotographers (Malin). NASA went to the moon. There were no 
>HST images in the public domain. There were no royalty-free CDs. There was 
>no digital image processing.

-snip-

         There's the real issue, IMO.  Not the amount of the one time fee, 
but the open ended agreement allow magazines - and I say magazines, not 
just S&T, as all magazines seem to be doing this - keeping publishing 
rights open ended.  For exmaple, there was a fight between National 
Geographic and some of it's photographers over use of images in the 
National Geographic CD-ROMS.  I do not know how it was resolved (if 
ever).  However, $50 for one time use in a magazine is today, sadly, good 
moneyin some circumstances, but for an open ended rights agreement, no, 
it's not, I think.

          The real issue for me when dealing with anything or anybody in 
the publishing industry, is the same people & companies who want open ended 
rights agreements on images are often the first ones to complain or use the 
law to slam down on illegal use of images they own rights too.  Talking to 
photographers in other fields, it's this seemingly double standard that 
seems to upset some people the most.
joe




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