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Also if your paper has guidelines
>for usage of reprints from ad shoots I'd like to see them.  Is there a
>universal position, for instance, on reuse by the customer for advertising
>in other publications, newsletters to customers of the business you shot
>the ad for, citations and credits, web usage?  Does your paper pay you or
>even just your tuition and costs to go to school to acquire skills?


Emily and all:

My view on this is that ultimately you have to go along with the wants of
your publisher, or feel free to move on to another paper that doesn't make
you shoot for advertisers.

Overall, though, I think that some publishers just don't realize their
shooters are photoJOURNALISTS and not photographers. After all, would the ad
department ask a reporter to write ad copy if they were short handed? Does
it seem fair to get your hourly wage for making a nice photo for XYZ
Company's $900 ad?

And businesses should not be allowed to take the images shot by a newspaper
staffer and use them anywhere else. I imagine management is within its
rights to do so, because the copyrights would be theirs under work for hire,
but a newspaper should know better than to give away its stuff for free.
Apparently some don't.

Jeff Broddle
jeffbroddle@yahoo.com


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