Rights grabbers

[Jim Bryant]

A best friend of mine, another professional photographer, who I've know since 1977 when we attended Syracuse together received an email from Anthropics Technology Ltd (makers of Portrait Professional) asking his to submit images. This is his response to the
rights grabbing SOBs and I probably would have said the same thing.


Dear Friends,

Thank you for offer to use my photographs in your world-wide advertising effort. As a professional photographer I am always looking for ways to give away all rights to my images for absolutely no compensation. Seeing my credits when my photographs are used gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside, and it makes me feel like such an artist (starving, you know) that I find your offer very hard to refuse. Refuse I must however, Since, like you. I am in business to make a living.

Thank you again for your degrading offer. I am sure many amateurs will respond with images and you can steal their images for nothing more than a moment questionable fame.

Bottom line; You produce a nice product, but you are cheap bastards. How about treating your customers with a little more respect.

Regards,
John Wright



Dear John ,

Want to get worldwide free publicity for yourself and your photos?

We are looking for images of people to use on our website, in our magazine adverts, in our online advertising campaigns and more. Our website has millions of visitors from around the world, and we advertise in numerous major English language photography magazines such as Popular Photography in the USA and Digital Photo in the UK. You will be prominently credited if we use any of your images.

What we are looking for

You can submit as many photos as you like for us to consider. Photos you submit
should be:
Unretouched
A full face frontal shot e.g. portrait, headshot, or face close-up with a lot of detail
Professional quality studio photo
Good lighting
Good contrast
High resolution
You don’t need to send us ‘after’ shots – our designers will do that for you if your image is selected.

How to submit your photos

Send an email with the photo(s) attached to: photos@anthropics.com

Make sure you say how you want to be credited if your photos are used.

Good luck!

The Portrait Professional Team

The legal bit

Please note that by submitting a photo(s), you are giving Anthropics Technology Ltd (makers of Portrait Professional) full rights to use your original images and the images as altered by us, in our marketing and advertising, offline and online, in whatever way they see fit, subject to the photo(s) being prominently credited to you. This includes digitally processing the image and displaying both the original image and the processed version simultaneously. If you are not happy with these terms, please do not submit any images. Do ensure you only send images for which you own the copyright and the individual depicted has consented to the image being submitted on these terms above.

[jdepould]

If their legaleze can't decide between first and third person, does that nullify it?

[tuxcomputers]

Sad thing is that there are enough idiots willing enough to give away their photos for free just for a little credit that it makes it worth it.

I have to question the economics though, wading through tons of shit that's head height to find the pearls, wouldn't it be cheaper to pay a decent sum for a decent product?

[beatles2]

Reminds me of the song by the Dire Straits,,money for nothing.I would have loved to see the look on your friends face when he first read the e-mail. And good for him to send a PFO e-mail back them.