On Wed, February 10, 2010 17:07, Emily L. Ferguson wrote: > At 12:37 PM -0600 2/10/10, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >>Those are about the same limits I've chosen (I waffle on the vertical, in >>this era of 16:9 screens). You an print a 4x6 nearly anybody would be >>perfectly happy with from that, but I don't think 4x6 prints of my photos >>ever constituted a viable commercial market. > > viable commercial market is the web - if you think a printable 4x6 is > not viable, you're missing the point. I'm not sure what you're saying here, what point I'm missing. There's not much commercial market for photos to use on the web. I mean, I've paid for about three myself, but in the $12-$80 range. I've shot some for other people, too. > Even billboards only require 2ppi. And they should be earning you 6 > or 8 grand. The billboard material I've seen is in the 4-6ppi range, I haven't measured carefully. And I haven't done a general survey to have any idea how typical the stuff I've seen close up is. If somebody in Ruritania steals one of my photos for a billboard, I doubt I can sue them for less than about 10 times what they should have paid me. And I doubt they ever could have considered paying that much anyay. Now, if they do it in the USA, small claims court might work, or if they use a lot of them then even real court might be worth it, if I had the copyright registered (which I mostly don't). If they aren't judgment-proof. -- 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
