Most dog pics are taken by the dog owner, so I suspect the book author won't have much trouble getting enough photos that come with "the photographers"approval. I understand why you would say no since you take your photography seriously, but for the vast majority, having a photo of their dog in the book is reward enough. I would be surprised if the author ends up making more than $10 an hour for his efforts in writing this book. I understand his predicament. Paul On Jun 9, 2012, at 10:40 PM, Matthew Hunt wrote:
> 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.
