Dear Michael, I think it's good advice when working for foreign clients directly from the UK to always get money up-front and I would ask for either 50% or expenses, whichever is the greater amount, it's rarely a problem. I recently did a job where I asked for this and found to my surprise that the client had paid the total cost of the job into my account before I had even sent them the pictures. Result! What nice people. With apologies to any foreign friends I was told this rule of thumb many years ago by a photographer I used to work for. "The Germans will pay in full and on time, The French will make a fuss about the invoice and pay late and The Italians will deny any knowledge of ever working with you in the first place!" Happy hunting, Mark.
Michael O'Brien said: > As you probably know Italy has a near-useless legal system and you'll have > to look long and hard at the cost-benefit of what you've lost compared with > the grief and cost of (possibly) getting it back. It's no consolation to > you now but for future ref. my SOP, having worked in Italy for a couple of > years, is that I want cash in my hand before handing over any goods to an > Italian company. >> I have some legal problems with Italian companies using my images without >> permission in Italy. I handed one of these cases to a lawyer there and they >> >> Has anybody on this list had experience in obtaining money from foreign >> companies for copyright abuse by dealing through the UK legal system? >> >> Any help would be much appreciated. >> >> Thanks >> Ashley > > =============================================================== > GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE > =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
