[MR] SCA photos

[logan]

i understand that there is a lot of time involved (well, not intimately as i
dont posses the skill nor the equipment to do so).  my objection is to the
practice of demanding someone pay you money for a picture they took of you
without you asking them to do so (take the picture) and was merely
forewarning that the practice rubs a lot of people the wrong way.  i know of
a few sites that host images that ive visited that when you click on an
image you get a popup window that says something akin to "dont try to steal
my images, click on the pay now button if you want it".  seems rude to
charge someone for a picture of them.  i have asked for a copy before and
ive never once had someone demand payment so i dont think the intent is to
be rude.  

anyway, its just my opinion and one that i know a lot of people share.  and
you do take lovely pictures and im sure lots of folks agree that it is
always a pleasure to see the images you capture.

regards
logan

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-----Original Message-----
From: atlantia-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
[mailto:atlantia-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of Lydia
Leovic
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 8:37 AM
To: atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
Subject: [MR] SCA photos

Your Grace, et. al.,

As someone who enjoys taking and sharing photos at SCA events and for
related SCA purposes, there is still a good deal of personal time required,
even in the digital age, to organize and upload pictures, let alone take a
decent shot.

While someone who paid money to attend an SCA event might not want to later
pay for their photo, which is their perrogative, the flipside to this
situation is that the photos shared online are not implicitly free for the
taking--despite the fact that technology would make it seem so--especially
if one wants to re-publish that photo on another website.  Giving the
photographer a photo credit at the very least, is simply common courtesy.  

I always appreciate it when people ask me for permission to republish a
photo I have taken, and all I ask for in return is a photo credit.

Of course there is no real way to police whether someone has copied another
photographer's original work and not at least given them a photo credit, but
a habit of not doing so illustrates to me a disregard for the value of
someone else's "intellectual property." (I am not a copyright lawyer, just
trying to make a point.)

My only strategy to protect my photos is to not publish full-size digital
photos on the internet.  If someone wants a quality print, they need to at
least ask me for the original file, which I am typically willing to share.

Many people have expressed to me that they enjoy seeing the photos I take at
events, and I am happy to share these.  Their thanks is the reward.

YIS,
Lidia de Ragusa



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