No copying the print by scanning it is a violation. uploading a digital file isn't per say a copy. Also charging a doctor more then any other collector regardless of usage is weird. Usage is usually based on amount of usage based on it being used to sell stuff. So a bill board is a super high usage for a commissioned work to sell stuff as the media buy is also super expensive so that fee is higher. Cover shoot way more then inside editorial shoot. Back page ad BANK.
Randy S. Little
http://www.rslittle.com/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2325729/
This is what i have noted when I started to sell at
street fairs 1998 to 2006 is that the audience I sell to is mostly using the
pictures to decorate their homes or abode. However a few were bought by a doctor
using his own money to decorate a satellite UNC Family Clinic. Then I was
currently selling ~8 x 10" images matted to 11 x 14" mostly unframed but some
framed.
A picture hung in a professional office or a
corporate setting should sell for more than one sold to a home owner or
student. Now one answer I come up with is to sell larger images at twice
the size which is 4x time the area at 10x the price assuming businesses will buy
larger works.
I also considered selling the smaller pictures with
a license restricting it use but this would require a lot of explanations to
potential buyers at festivals. I don't know how a license on the back of a print
would effect retail store sales. For now I have just let the stores selling
my smaller generally campus oriented images to sell out.
Also with technology at such a high level today as
Randy points out a customer could up load a photo to the Internet and
essentially one controls of the image is lost. So another license to prevent
such practice??
The only winners I see are the lawyers.
Roy
In a message dated 11/16/2013 3:35:29 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
randyslittle@xxxxxxxxx writes:
And you can absolutely do whatever you like to a painting you own. What you can't do is make copies or derivative works. If I have a painting I can light it on fire and hang from a flag pole while it burns and there is nothing copyright laws would have to say about it. If you sell me a print I can do what ever I like to the print and if its me parading your work I can even then display it in public forum.
