At 3:50 PM -0500 12/13/07, PhotoRoy6@xxxxxxx wrote:
But why would one want to upload an image that is on the verge of
collapsing if one wants to sell the images as prints? Of course I
live in a college town where at one point half the bandwidth on
campus was taken up by (illegal) music downloads so I might be more
paranoid. I sell pictures of campus thru local stores and have
never posted any of these images to net.
Roy
Bingo.
<rant>
Karl just will never get it. He must be a computer geek first and
photographer second and I think he's not self-employed. He's
apparently never had to think about who owns his property so he
thinks there's no problem with stripping out the metadata.
Boy, I'd almost be willing to give up my copyright, at least for my
more mundane work, in exchange for a regular paycheck of around
$2,000/week. Especially if my employer paid for all my equipment and
kept it up-to-date and sent me to conferences and workshops, and gave
me 4 weeks paid vacation and sick leave and health insurance. And if
I didn't have to drum up customers?! Boy would that be great. I
might even be willing to do that for $1500/week.
Instead, a recent customer wants a 5x7.5 print in 8x10 mat for $45 +
shipping. A reasonable, competitive price.
But the Toyota people want $90 to replace the spring that releases
the latch on the trunk lid of my 10 year old car.
Something is wrong with this picture. One thing that's wrong is that
people don't recognize the value of creative, artistic work. They
think it should all be free. Especially in academia where the
parents are paying the bills or they get a salary.
</rant>
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