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mortcdz
 Male (gold account) mortcdz

Posted: 24th Aug 2008
9:56 PM

Copyright

Recently I was contacted by someone from a "bank" in the Cayman Islands who wanted to use a couple of the photo's I'd posted to another photo based website.

The person was amazed at having asked me if they could use the photo's in some promotional material I said I was more than happy and just wanted to know what it was used in plus a credit somewhere in the material.

Now people who I've told about this have all said I'm mad, but these aren't pictures which are generally going to be saleable and I think the only reason they are used is their colour scheme. So to me the pictures are nice but nothing more, and they aren't particularly the pictures I want in my resume as my first paid commission!

So what would you do in this situation? Am I indeed mad?
Tags

commercial   commission   copyright  


2 comments

Tioadli
 Male (gold account) Tioadli
26th Aug 2008, 7:07 PM

By not including them in your cv you are forcing your opinion of what a customer would require on the customer. The point is, if a picture is of something that someone wants, then it is valuable to them no matter what you think of it, that's how you'll earn money, by giving (read selling) 'em what they want. Depends what you want to achieve really, money in the bank, or the respect of the people who like your work.


Tino
 Male (gold account) Tino
1st Sep 2008, 9:24 PM

Go for the dosh! I never once looked at promotional material and thought "crikey who took this shot"
I had a request like this a couple of years back and they stole my pics anyway.



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