ExtortionLetterInfo Forums
ELI Forums => Getty Images Letter Forum => Topic started by: Robert Krausankas (BuddhaPi) on June 05, 2012, 06:35:12 PM
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In this story a photographer doesn't cross any lines or try to extort any money from anyone, the ass-hats in this case were the band members..
"Band Publicly Refuses to Pay Photog, Leads to Facebook Firestorm"
The story goes something like this: When concert photographer Dan DeSlover discovered that his photo of Alter Bridge guitarist Mark Tremonti was being used on the band’s Facebook page to advertise Tremonti’s solo project, he respectfully asked to be paid $75 (his commercial use fee). The management refused, apologized, and removed the photo. Ideally this is where the story would end.
Unfortunately, after the photo was removed, the admin of the band’s Facebook posted the following status update:
Sorry we had to take down the picture of Mark. Got an email from the photographer wanting to charge us $75.00 to display it. Needless to say, we declined…
read more...
http://www.petapixel.com/2012/06/03/band-publicly-refuses-to-pay-photog-leads-to-commenting-firestorm/
ADDED BY MATTHEW CHAN:
http://www.facebook.com/MusicPhotographers
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$75 for a commercial display fee with no extortionate markup? Wow. If image infringement requests were even double that amount, most of the ELI audience would pay it and be done with.
By NOT paying that $75 and the admin stupidly advertised that fact, the got themselves way more than $75 of negatively publicity. LOL.
Even I would be forced to tell people to pay if they had reasonable proof they owned the image.
Obviously, a very cheap band.
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$75 for a commercial display fee with no extortionate markup? Wow. If image infringement requests were even double that amount, most of the ELI audience would pay it and be done with.
By NOT paying that $75 and the admin stupidly advertised that fact, the got themselves way more than $75 of negatively publicity. LOL.
Even I would be forced to tell people to pay if they had reasonable proof they owned the image.
Obviously, a very cheap band.
And not very smart in the PR department either!
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People shouldn't be expected to work for free.
S.G.