In a message dated 4/2/2009 11:41:03 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, herschel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > The work involved in catching them and then having to go to court to > prove > that it's your image, and then trying to get $$$... fuggitaboudit There are several issues. Putting IPTC data in photos I display on the web helps honest people of good intentions find me to make arrangements for use. I do think, if you're going to display on the web at all, that you should make it easy for that display to lead to real work. Not displaying sizes that could be used for much in the way of commercial purposes help prevent that, of course. Going totally obsessive over the chance that anybody might possibly use your work improperly, including personal use that they could not possibly consider paying money for, is just going to raise your blood pressure. If you feel that way, don't display on the web. Myself, I feel like I've done very well from my web display of photos. My photo in Julie Phillips Hugo-winning book on "James Tiptree Jr." came about because she found the photo on Wikipedia, with my contact information, and tracked me down to get a higher-res version and permission to use in her book (which she paid me for). (Given the size it appears in the book, I think she could have worked with the Creative-Commons licensed version on Wikipedia, and not had to have paid me, and I wouldn't have minded that; I can only presume she felt it was right to pay anyway.) Just last night I received the first two volumes of NESFA Press' collection of the short fiction of Roger Zelazny, as a contributor's copy because they used one of my photos on the back flap. Arranged with permission ahead of time, and it's a 1974 photo I snapped at the World Science Fiction Convention in DC when I was 19. They're a non-profit, many of the people involved are friends of mine, and I'm a big fan of Roger Zelazny, so I probably *would* have bought these books for $50 or so dollars otherwise; so I'm quite happy with that outcome, too. And I get a lot of "egoboo", the most important currency of SF fandom (shortened from "ego boost"; it means, roughly, "credit") from displaying my photos on the web, perhaps especially the oldest and the newest. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
