Magazine: Contacting Photographers is Too Complicated
Photo District News has a story about how pathetic editors at some publications have become. CLICK HERE to read the story on PDNPulse. The article tells about a magazine who used a photographers photos without his consent. The magazines response was:
…Contacting ±15 photographers worldwide – every issue – is a very complicated thing. We’ll get photographers wanting a say in the text we write, wanting to supply us with their own text, diverting us to their gallery, who are on assignment abroad, not reachable etc. etc. etc. We work deadlines….
Oh boo hoo. Just because you are too lazy to contact the creator of an image does not give you any right to use that image because you are too lazy to get proper permission. If contacting 15 people in a months time is too difficult then get out of the business. If you do not get permission to use a photo, you cannot use the photo. It truly is that simple. This mindset of people that everything should be free makes my head feel like it will explode. Unfortunately, too many photographers and artists let these people get away this thievery. Register you copyrights and defend them.