It seems to get tougher continually for professional photographers. I'd like to see examples of rights grabber's catalogs. Who are they? Can anyone point to a specific instance where they lost business to them? Or is it just part of the general malaise - photographers feeling picked upon by a better (sneaky-er!?) business plan, royalty-free CD's, idiot-proof digital cameras, and on and on? I recall the same screams of unfair, unfair at the purveyors of royalty-free CD albums way back when. Recently I mentioned my difficulty finding decent images on Getty and Corbis. The commercial illustration shots are with few exceptions laughably awful, unworthy of a $19.98 CD. If the rights grabbers are "stealing" good stuff and it's no better than the other collections I don't really care. The better commercial workers get big bucks and deservedly so. I doubt that they worry about loosing jobs to the stock houses. AZ LOOKAROUND - Since 1978 Build a 120/35mm Lookaround! The Lookaround E-Book 5ed. http://www.panoramacamera.us > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [SPAM] Re: The Nature Conservancy's Digital Photography > Contest > From: Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed, August 12, 2009 9:55 am > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students > <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > At 09:46 AM 8/12/2009, you wrote: > >Tina, > >Yea, but it is non-exclusive rights and I would think having something > >accepted would be quite a publicity coup for most people. Besides it's > >not a bad outfit to support is it? > > > >AZ > They should not be grabbing rights and building a library of all > submitted photos to use Royalty Free any way they want. Read about > rights grabbing contests and how they affect photographers: > http://www.pro-imaging.org/content/view/135/155/ > The publicity would not be worth it. > Tina > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com
