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Why is it OK to quote what someone said for a news article, but not use their photo with proper attribution? Because they spent a couple hundred dollars on a camera?As a professional photographer (and programmer), I can easily answer that: because they are professionals, and they want to get paid for THEIR pictures.
How about someone steals your business' source code (which you didn't release as FOSS)? Why shouldn't he? Because you spent a couple thousand dollars on a laptop? (if I'm allowed to to use your reasoning).
Not to mention: it's not just the camera: it's also their being were they need to take the pictures (which has costs), they risks they went through, years of training etc. And their particular expression (composition, etc).
If you think their pictures are not worth what they ask for, then don't use them. If you think they are worth it, pay for them. It's that simple.
>I've been a professional photographer for over 10 years, and it makes me sick how paranoid others in the industry are.
Well, if you're a wedding photographer, or a fine art photographer that makes his living from selling framed, signed and numbered prints, you don't qualify.
In the article we're talking about people that make their money from selling their pictures for print and online media and such (photojournalists). Though it also applies the same to stock photographers.
>The balance of power is completely wrong, and photographers, musical artists, and other "creatives"
If you want to take their stuff and listen to it or use it on the front page of your newspaper then they are clearly creative -- and the quotation marks around that word are not helping your comment.
>If proper attribution is given to the creator (same as quoting what someone says) then photographs should be shared.
Thanks for pissing all over my profession.
To answer your idea: people in general don't say things as a business to make money. That's why they are quoted for free. Were "quote" also means "a small part of what they said".
Those that do say things to get paid (e.g comedians, writers, journalists etc), don't get their words reprinted for free.
As a professional photographer (and programmer), I can easily answer that: because they are professionals, and they want to get paid for THEIR pictures.
How about someone steals your business' source code (which you didn't release as FOSS)? Why shouldn't he? Because you spent a couple thousand dollars on a laptop? (if I'm allowed to to use your reasoning).
Not to mention: it's not just the camera: it's also their being were they need to take the pictures (which has costs), they risks they went through, years of training etc. And their particular expression (composition, etc).
If you think their pictures are not worth what they ask for, then don't use them. If you think they are worth it, pay for them. It's that simple.
>I've been a professional photographer for over 10 years, and it makes me sick how paranoid others in the industry are.
Well, if you're a wedding photographer, or a fine art photographer that makes his living from selling framed, signed and numbered prints, you don't qualify.
In the article we're talking about people that make their money from selling their pictures for print and online media and such (photojournalists). Though it also applies the same to stock photographers.
>The balance of power is completely wrong, and photographers, musical artists, and other "creatives"
If you want to take their stuff and listen to it or use it on the front page of your newspaper then they are clearly creative -- and the quotation marks around that word are not helping your comment.
>If proper attribution is given to the creator (same as quoting what someone says) then photographs should be shared.
Thanks for pissing all over my profession.
To answer your idea: people in general don't say things as a business to make money. That's why they are quoted for free. Were "quote" also means "a small part of what they said".
Those that do say things to get paid (e.g comedians, writers, journalists etc), don't get their words reprinted for free.