From: Carl Weese (cweese@earthlink.net)
Date: 09/03/02-12:08:39 PM Z
Shannon,
Much too detailed for here. The ASMP (formerly Association of Magazine
Photographers, several name changes since) has published pamphlets that deal
with these issues. There are also several decent business guides for
photographic practice. Some web searches should point them up.
Physical possession of a negative or transparency is not important (well it
could be pragmatically) it's the copyright that counts. That belongs to the
creator unless it's handed over in writing to someone else. Reproduction
rights are technically a sort of lease. Quick example, I had commercial
clients with whom I left assignment chromes on file because they were the
*only* place likely to re-use those pictures. When used again, they paid a
fee. More often the chromes were returned after the specific project was
published. How much to charge is an endless topic. Let's say the fee depends
on the use (an ad use is worth much more than an editorial use, which is
worth more than a web site use). The actual price may be determined by the
buyer's "going rate" or by what the market will bear for the
quality/uniqueness of your work. It's a long list of questions.---Carl
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and workshop information at:
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