----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Reese" Subject: how do you protect your work from inferior copies?
I have come to the conclusion that the casual photographer can no longer protect his copy rights in any meaningful way. I haven't bothered trying for at least 10 years. I just hand over the film or files to the client at the final payment. William Robb > I shot some B & G portraits a little while ago at cost as a favor to a > photographer friend. I was very pleased with the pictures as were the B & G. > I was going to give the B & G the professional lab enlargements at cost too. > I hoped to get a few more portrait jobs out of the assignment through word > of mouth. I shot the pictures with medium format (non Pentax) and they were > tack sharp. The enlargements would have been beautiful. The numbskull > (deleted much stronger verbiage) bride took the 5x5 proofs to some jiffy > print outfit and scanned them then got enlargements made from the scans to > save a few dollars. > > The more I think about this the angrier I get. The B & G got greatly > inferior prints that don't in any way reflect the quality of my work. They > passed up a great bargain and I feel like my reputation will be damaged > every time someone looks at those lousy prints. > > I guess it's true that no good deed goes unpunished. > > Tom Reese > > > > >
