if she's using a respectable publisher then their legal department should put a stop to that. In any case, if she won't give the book away, why should you give the photo away?
B > -----Original Message----- > From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of > Matthew Hunt > Sent: 10 June 2012 03:40 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: OT Not worth paying for > > An author of dog training books contacted my wife about a picture I > took of my wife and our late Doberman. The author wanted to use the > picture in a book she is writing. My wife respects the author and liked > the idea of being in the book, but I didn't want to give away a > photograph for a book to be sold at profit. I realized that the book is > likely to sell on a pretty small scale, so I thought a good compromise > would be to allow her to use my photograph, in exchange for a free copy > of the book. That would make my wife happy (for both the book and being > in it) and be a minimal expense for the author. > > The author declined these terms. You see, she plans to use hundreds of > photographs, and clearly it would be too expensive to agree to such > terms. > > (Since the author is seeking permission from the subjects, rather than > the photographers, I'm sure the book will be full of photographs that > she doesn't have the right to publish.) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
